EXCLUSIVE: MGM set Misha Green to write and make his feature film debut next year tomb Raider, who has Alicia Vikander set to reprise her role as Lara Croft. Verde arrives here after creating and directing Lovecraft Country, the HBO series starring Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors and Michael Kenneth Williams.
tomb Raider will be produced by Graham King through his GK Films banner and Elizabeth Cantillon through The Cantillon Company.
Green is the showrunner and executive producer of Lovecraft Country, alongside Jordan Peele and JJ Abrams and based on the novel by Matt Ruff. She wrote separately and is producing The mother, which sold in a competitive situation to Netflix and is also producing Warner Brothers’ Cleopatra Jones and Makeready The Golden ones. Green previously co-created, executive produced and wrote the WGN series Underground, which broke audience records during its first season and was the first television show in the United States to focus on slavery and the underground railroad. Underground was nominated for four NAACP Image Awards and a TCA Award for Outstanding New Program by the Television Critics Association.
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Vikander’s first time in 2018 tomb Raider grossed about $ 275 million at the global box office. MGM’s tomb Raider will be released in theaters in the United States through the United Artists Releasing studio distribution and marketing joint venture, and internationally by Warner Bros.
The most recently tomb Raider installment is among a killer list of films overseen by Michael DeLuca and Pamela Abdy, of the MGM Film Group, whose next feature films include the next untitled film by Paul Thomas Anderson; Joe Wright’s Cyrano; Ridley Scott’s Gucci project, starring Lady Gaga and Adam Driver; Ron Howard’s Thirteen lives; Legally Blonde 3 starring Reese Witherspoon and written by Mindy Kaling and Dan Goor; George Miller Three thousand years of longing starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba; Adaptation of the film by Chris Lord and Phil Miller The Martian author Andy Weir’s next novel (also known as Ave Maria Project) starring Ryan Gosling; Adapted by Tommy Kail from Violinist on the Roof; a project by Sammy Davis Jr. produced by Lena Waithe; Kenya Barrels’ Richard Pryor Project; Scott Z. Burn’s Fake! starring Kate Winslet; Jeff Fowler’s modern hybrid live action CGI film reimagining pink Panther; a film adaptation of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ The Water Dancer, to be produced by Plan B, Harpo Films and Kamilah Forbes; Sarah Polley’s feature film adaptation of Women talking with Frances McDormand producing and starring; Lee Isaac Chung’s next untitled film; Cory Finley’s film adaptation of Landscape with invisible hand with Tiffany Haddish starring; and under the MGM Orion Pictures seal, Billy Porter’s first feature What if?, among others.
Verde is represented by CAA and Del, Shaw, Moonves.