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Tomb Raider Anime Series in Development at Netflix
A Tomb Raider anime series is in development at Netflix, and will be set after the events of Crystal Dynamics’ most recent trilogy of games.
The streaming service announced the news in a press release on Wednesday. Tasha Huo, who is working with Netflix on The Witcher: Blood Origin, will write and executive produce.
Legendary Entertainment is working with Netflix on Tomb Raider after previously working with the streamer on the Lost in Space remake. It was also announced on Wednesday that Legendary is working on a Skull Island anime series at Netflix.
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dj2 Entertainment is also working on the Tomb Raider anime. It’s the latest in a long line of video game adaptations for the company following the Sonic the Hedgehog movie. They have a movie based on Sleeping Dogs in development along with TV shows based on My Friend Pedro, Disco Elysium, Life is Strange, and more.
There’s no word yet if Camilla Luddington, who played Lara Croft in the reboot trilogy, is part of this project. The actress is currently starring on Grey’s Anatomy and recently played Zatanna in the animated Justice League: Dark movie from 2017 and its 2020 sequel, Apokolips War.
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider was the last game released in the series. It came out in 2018 and earned mostly positive reviews from critics. IGN’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider review praised the game and said, it “convincingly leaves her in a place resembling where she was when we were first introduced to her more than 20 years ago.”
The Tomb Raider movie franchise is also still in full swing. The sequel will be written and directed by the creator of Lovecraft Country with Alicia Vikander once again playing Lara Croft.
Anybody looking for some current anime recommendations on Netflix can check out IGN’s updated list of the best anime on Netflix.
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Petey Oneto is a freelance writer for IGN.
Kevin Feige Says The Marvel’s Eternals Pitch Was the Best He’s Ever Heard
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige has packed on the praise for Eternals filmmaker Chloé Zhao and, more specifically, the pitch that she delivered for her upcoming MCU Phase 4 movie.
Rolling Stone magazine recently published a profile piece on Zhao, featuring insight from Feige and others in the industry about the process of bringing her visions to life on the big screen. Feige commended the Eternals helmer for catching his attention with her ideas for the upcoming MCU entry, as he apparently referred to “Zhao’s pitch for the movie the best he’d ever heard.”
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“Not only does Chloe make remarkable, small, personal movies in a remarkable, small, personal way, but she thinks in grand, cosmic, gigantic terms, which fit perfectly with what we wanted to do,” Feige explained, speaking about Zhao’s journey to the MCU. “Eternals is a very big, sweeping, multimillennial-spanning story. And she just got it.”
During last year’s D23 Marvel panel, Disney officially revealed the celestial costumes for Thena, Ikaris, Ajak, Phastos, Kingo, and the rest of the Eternals. Despite being a clan of god-like beings, Rolling Stone says Zhao wanted to keep the story grounded and experimental, “like you’re right there in this space with these characters,” so she shot the movie with the same rig she used for her indie film Nomadland.
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Marvel’s Eternals, the third film in the MCU’s Phase 4, features a stellar cast consisting of Angelina Jolie, Richard Madden, Kit Harington. Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Brian Tyree Henry, and Salma Hayek. Reportedly the most “sci-fi” movie of the MCU, Eternals follows the exploits of an immortal alien race created by the Celestials as they reunite to protect humanity from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.
Sadly, Eternals was part of the huge slate of Disney movies that were delayed towards the end of last year, with the movie now scheduled to arrive on November 5, 2021. For more on Marvel Studios’ future slate of projects and releases, read our breakdown of the biggest and most noteworthy developments in the MCU, on Disney+, and in Marvel’s comics this year.
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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.
PlayStation Plus Games for February 2021 Announced
Sony has revealed that Destruction AllStars, Control: Ultimate Edition (PS4 and PS5!), and Concrete Genie are the PlayStation Plus games for February 2021.
Announced on PlayStation.Blog, all three games will be available on February 2, 2021. While Control: Ultimate Edition and Concrete Genie will only be available until March 1, Destruction AllStars will stay until April 5.
Alongside this news, PlayStation also shared its newest State of Play, and it is focused entirely on Destruction AllStars. It lasts nearly eight minutes, and gives an in-depth look at the “car-smashing, heart-pounding, thrill-seeking world of Destruction AllStars.”
Destruction AllStars screams onto PlayStation Plus next week.
State of Play arms you with everything you need to know before leaping into the arena. pic.twitter.com/YVqwsElZBD— PlayStation (@PlayStation) January 27, 2021
Control: Ultimate Edition is a welcome one, as there was a bit of controversy over the fact that this version was the only one that would get the next-gen upgrades. Those who purchased the base game would have to buy Control again to get these improvements.
Control was our game of the year in 2019, and in our review, we said “thanks to a strong supporting cast, a well-written script, and plenty of intriguing breadcrumb trails, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my adventure through the shifting rooms of Oldest House. Jesse’s personal story feels like an afterthought next to that, but there’s enough to Control’s world that I remain invested in uncovering every secret, even though the story’s over.”
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Concrete Genie was released on PS4 in 2019, and in our review, we said “Short and very sweet, Concrete Genie is a spellbinding experiment in player creativity.”
Concrete Genie also includes two additional modes that were designed for PS VR.
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Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.
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Fall Guys Dev Wants To Bring The Game To “Every Major Platform” With Cross-Play
Fall Guys developer Mediatonic wants to bring the whimsical battle royale game to more platforms and add cross-play support for “all the different platforms.”
CEO and co-founder Dave Bailey told GI.biz that while Mediatonic is keeping its expansion plans under wraps for now, the aim is to bring Fall Guys to more platforms … eventually.
“We haven’t said much about the roadmap for this, but what we can say is we want this to reach as many people as possible,” he said. “We want it to come to every major platform, and we’re working hard to achieve that.”
PS Plus February 2021 Games Include PS5’s Control, Destruction AllStars
Sony has unveiled February’s lineup of PlayStation Plus freebies for PS5 and PS4 users. We’ve known about one of the upcoming free games since the PS5’s launch. Destruction AllStars, which was originally slated to release alongside the console, will be available to PS Plus subscribers in February. The vehicular combat game is a PS5 exclusive and joins Concrete Genie and Control: Ultimate edition, which is getting a free PS5 upgrade on February 2. All three games will be available to claim starting February 2.
Destruction AllStars is an online multiplayer title developed by Lucid Games. Players take control of one of 16 playable characters, each of whom has their own vehicle with unique weapons and moves. As the title suggests, the goal is to zip around the arena and destroy your opponents’ vehicles. If your vehicle gets destroyed, you can compete on foot, which understandably will make it tougher to emerge victorious. Destruction AllStars will be free for subscribers until April 5.
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