Absurd Casting Rumor of the Day: Kim Kardashian as Lara Croft?
15 years ago, Tomb Raider was the coolest thing in the whole video game universe, with the possible exception of Looney Tunes B-Ball.
10 years ago, the well-endowed star of the Tomb Raider games, Lara Croft, made the leap to movie screens with a little help from Angelina Jolie.
Today, Tomb Raider is an old scratched-up Playstation disc at the bottom of a cardboard box tucked into the dankest corner of your basement. And Angelina Jolie has moved on from playing Lara Croft to become a compulsive child-collector and occasional star of action movies having nothing to do with raiding or tombs.
To put it bluntly, Tomb Raider is over. Done. Finished. Not even the geekiest Tomb Raider geek of all-time cares if there is ever another Tomb Raider game or Tomb Raider movie.
Irrelevant? Lame? Unwanted? Sounds like the perfect vehicle for Kim Kardashian.
As a matter of fact, according to “insiders,” Kim is indeed currently in talks to slide into Angelina’s tank-top and become the new Lara Croft.
This new Tomb Raider reboot would reportedly feature a more “comic-strip version” of Croft – because Angelina’s version was just too damn realistic – and would be shot in 3D. And, say sources, it would be targeted at a teen market.
I know at least one teen who would line up to see Kim Kardashian play Lara Croft:
I’m just not sure there’s much market among the rest of America’s youth for a movie of a video game their big brother wouldn’t let them play when they were 8 starring a chick from a reality show whose sex videos are already readily available to anyone who wishes to have a gander at her special features. But then again I’m no expert.
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