As much as I dislike blowing my own trumpet (okay, not strictly true: I’d blow it 25 hours a day if I could), I am going to say, here and now – and I swear I won’t mention it ever again – that I was totally on target when I took a guess at the storyline.
You might remember that the cast tweeted a couple of shots from the film set a while back, and the interweb lost its collective shit.
Why the hell, said the Politically Correct Police, is Karen Gillan running around a mosiquito-infested jungle in shorts with her midriff out? I mean, what sensible heroine does that?
Lara Croft, I replied, to no-one in particular.
Each of the four is playing a character in a computer game, and Karen is playing a send-up of the Tomb Raider. I mean, if the name Ruby Roundhouse wasn’t a clue that this is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, then I don’t know what else they could have done short of posting the script on the movie’s website.
Well, the trailer is out and … well, it’s probably best if you see for yourself.
I guess the take-home from this is that it’s probably best to wait until production is actually done before piling in and tearing the movie to bits. A little patience and you stop bloggers getting smug when they’re proven right, and as we all know, there’s nothing worse than a smug blogger.
