Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

Timing: 1:40 (100 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2001-06-15

Country

Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, United States

Production

Paramount, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Mutual Film Company, BBC Film, TOHO-TOWA, H2L Media Group, Marubeni, Tele München, Eidos Interactive, KFP Produktions

Genre

Adventure, Fantasy, Action, Thriller

Budget

$115 000 000

Revenue

$274 703 340

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Director

Simon West

Actors

Angelina Jolie, Iain Glen, Daniel Craig, Noah Taylor, Chris Barrie, Jon Voight, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Leslie Phillips, Richard Johnson, Robert Phillips
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Scenario

Producer

Colin Wilson, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin, Stuart Baird, Jeremy Heath Smith

Operator

Peter Menzies Jr.

Composer

Graeme Revell

Artist

Gary Freeman, Kate Grimble

Audition

John Hubbard, Dan Hubbard, Sarah Halley Finn

Editing

Glen Scantlebury, Eric Strand, Mark Warner
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• The film is based on the «Tomb Raider» series of computer games (1996 – present).
• Lara's pistols in the film are Heckler & Koch USP Match.
• In 1998, Brent V. Friedman wrote an unreleased script for "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." One possible reason for this was the major box office failure the previous year of "Mortal Kombat 2: Annihilation" (1997), for which Friedman was one of the screenwriters.
• Lara's father, Lord Croft, was originally named Henshingly, but was changed to Richard in later games.
• Part of the film was shot in Angkor, Cambodia.
• The exterior of Lara's manor is "Hatfield House," a large estate in Hertfordshire, England.
• To enhance realism, the actors in the film speak with accents not native to them: American Angelina Jolie (Lara Croft) – with an English accent, Englishman Daniel Craig (Alex West) – with an American accent, and Ian Glen (Manfred Powell), a Scotsman – with an English accent.
• The Buddhist ceremony in which Lara participates (following the phone call scene with Powell from Cambodia) is shown authentically and is not staged.
• A music video for U2's hit "Elevation" from the film's soundtrack was later filmed on the theme of "Tomb Raider," and the musicians even wanted to invite Angelina Jolie to star in it.
• The success of the Lara Croft film prompted Land Rover to release a special edition of 250 Defender Tomb Raider LE vehicles. All of them, both externally and internally, were identical to the car driven by Angelina Jolie in the film.
• Scenes from the film set in Siberia were actually filmed in Iceland.
• The film is based on the "Tomb Raider" series of computer games (1996 – present).
• In 1998, Brent V. Friedman wrote a screenplay for "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" that was never produced. One possible reason was the massive box office failure of "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" (1997) the previous year, for which Friedman was one of the screenwriters.
• Lara's mansion is "Hatfield House", a vast estate in Hertfordshire, England.
• For realism, the actors in the film speak with accents not native to them: American Angelina Jolie (Lara Croft) with an English accent, Englishman Daniel Craig (Alex West) with an American accent, and Ian Glen (Manfred Powell), a Scotsman, with an English accent.
• A music video for U2's hit "Elevation" from the film's soundtrack was later filmed with a "Tomb Raider" theme, and the musicians even wanted to invite Angelina Jolie to star in it.
• Although the film does not specify the year, the actual planetary alignment occurred on May 3, 2000, approximately a year before the film's release. In the film, the "conjunction" begins on May 15th.