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Jolie "furious" at Megan Fox in Tomb Raider

Hollywood star reportedly displeased by casting rumours
Angelina Jolie is reportedly "furious" at rumours that she will not be reprising her role as Lara Croft in the next Tomb Raider film, and the part will instead be offered to Transformers starlet (and all-round FITTY) Megan Fox.

According to a Sun source, Angelina isn't a fan of the Transformers movies and believes Megan won't do the Lara Croft character "justice".

"She's also annoyed because she thinks Megan copies everything from her, from her tattoos to her style," the source says. Meeeow.

The new film, according to executive producer Dan lin, is an "origin story" starring a younger Lara, with plenty of "character-driven action".

The Sun source said: "Angie was intent on reprising her role. She feels it's something she helped define and feels robbed that it looks likely to be handed to someone who she considers less capable than her."

We'd be quite happy with both, to be honest. Mother AND daughter.

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Posted by dremorack
I would DEFINATELY see this film if Megan Fox was lara croft. Jesus christ..
Posted by Waste_Manager
Must be true if it was in The Sun. *sigh*
Posted by altitude2k
I gave up taking anything in the Sun seriously after I read an article about a guy who woke up during his own open-casket funeral.

At least it's entertaining and not fearmongering and full of propeganda quite like other newspapers *cough* Daily Mail *cough*

I also think I deserve some minus points for trying to work out what FITTY stood for :?
Posted by Miss_Wacy
haha go jolie, wouldnt want that f***in pig smegan fox in a tomb raider film, hope she dont get it, jolies the real lara croft
Posted by Dajmin
Pretty sure it's because she's just too old for the character now. I know mid-30s is hardly decrepit, but if the makers want someone younger then that's their prerogative. Still never got the obsession with Angelina though.

Plus, Megan is hot stuff at the moment. She's a rising star. And has amazing eyes. Doesn't relate to Lara at all, but I don't care, they are stunning :)

And piss off, the REAL Lara is and always will be Rhona Mitra.
Posted by svd_grasshopper
the sun is class, the website in particular.

you use your brain and weed out whats been sensationalised, the rest is entertaining. like reading about bruno and ogling sexy bitches at work.

but not angie or megan. hate them with trashy tattoo's.
Posted by Terribly_Mauled
One looks like a genetic accident splicing human and fish dna, the other is more orange than David Dickinson.
Posted by Black Mantis
I gave up on Christianity after hearing a similar story at a religious event at the Royal Albert Hall! I was never into it that much to begin with, but this was the final straw. 8)
Posted by Brian Bloodaxe
Sorry did I just log onto Heat magazine?

The Sun :roll:
Posted by Black Mantis
This explains a lot! 8)
Posted by svd_grasshopper
snobs. bet you havent seen the sun in years if at all. the site wons loads of awards and has tons of content. they rarely stoop as low as some of the other so called papers.

max clifford invents fake situations and reports on them in the other tabloids. total fabrications. the sun isnt like that.


2008–Reporter of the Year: Tom Newton Dunn; Scoop of the Year: Tom Newton-Dunn; Cudlipp Award (Help for Heroes campaign); Campaign of the Year (Help For Heroes).
Posted by Marlonjb
I can't really put into words what I'd like to do to both Jolie and fox. Christ Fox is hot.
Posted by suchthef00l
Hopefully this results in some sort of fight where they tear eachother's clothes off. Pics or it didn't happen :D
Posted by gogo65uk
There are better suited women out there for the roll of lara croft than the bimbo of the moment. But in fairness the films always suck so I don't really give a crap. :lol:
Posted by shellster2
well i wouldn't care whether Megan or Angelina was the next tomb raider, however as un-PC it sounds (i couldn't give sh!t) Megan's tits are too small to be a true representation of Lara.
Posted by nottsville
Ah....the bitter cost of fame. Jolie, once heralded as the most beautiful thing on the planet, is now gazumped by a younger, arguably more attractive model.

When Megan fox starts purchasing brown babies, THEN Jolie can accuse her of copying her style!
Posted by AJB123644
I can see where Jolie is coming from with regards to the copying her style but let's be fair who says it is not a good thing. Fox clearly odolises Jolie.

I just hope this doesn't escalate.

Also Jolie has another point. She shouldn't really be reprised of a role she helped to create.
Posted by Mark240473
Any chance of a British lass playing Lara Croft? You know, like they use a British man to play James Bond.

Preferably, a posh british lass with big jugs. Who likes to stand in corners.
Posted by JuiKuen
I'm no fan of either really. As a matter of fact, I can't stand Jolie. She's way overrated in her looks and as an actress. The same goes for Fox too, though out of the two, I'd probably go for her.

Anyway, wasn't Jolie taking a break from making movies? A role she defined as well? Those movies were total garbage.

But CVG's now stooping to the lows of commenting on what The Sun writes? And I am too commenting on this :roll:
Posted by svd_grasshopper
lucy pinder. :D
Posted by Miss_Wacy
would make more mense, but jolie did it good anyway, if fox was in a tomb raider film itd only get seen cos shes in it not to mention the tomb raider name slapped on it
Posted by wkdtkd
Forget Jolie AND Fox! Who should really get the roll is SUMMER GLAU!!! WOO!!!
Posted by kimoak
I do think she would make quite a decent young Lara actually.
Posted by svd_grasshopper
the films are even sadder than the games.

angie is just raging megan bumped her out of the worlds sexiest women title.

though megan is an idiot. she got a 'brian' tattoo, split with the guy then said she didnt regret it... she can always have a baby and call it brian to warrant the tat!

and that big marilyn munro face tattoo on her arm is vile.
Posted by dm_1782
Megan Fox is too up herself. She looks good and she knows it and is using that to her advantage.
Posted by sweatyBallacks?
Now f*cking way.

That Pinder has got a mountain of a nose, something which FHM, The Sun et al have managed to deceive us men with all these years by never showing pictures of her from a profile view

What about Keeley Hazel? Altho that cockney accent would not be very attractive on a Lara
Posted by svd_grasshopper
very sad.

that keeley is trailer trash of the highest order.
Posted by shellster2
@svd

so who would you want to play Lara then?
Posted by jrabbitt
"Mother AND Daughter"? Angelina's only 9 years older than Fox. IMO Angelina is the perfect age to play Croft again, the character has always been mature. Those 16y/o Lara's in the games took everything away from what it was all about.
Posted by Black Mantis
That's how us beautiful people roll! I'm sorry you're average looking. :wink:
Posted by svd_grasshopper
Megan Fox has revealed she is so insecure over her looks that she can't look at snapshots of herself.

“I’m a tranny. I’m a man. I’m so painfully insecure. I’m on the verge of vomiting now.”

she has said she looks like a man or tranny on many occasaions. thats doesnt sound like she loves herself.

and who cares who plays lara. that has given gamers the sad geeky impression for years. the films are shite and so are the games.
Posted by Miss_Wacy
thing with girls like that is thier too shallow and think thier owed everything, she thinks she looks good then everyone must want her

sorry but these over thirsty men who keep going over ga ga over her dont help her over inflated ego as it is
Posted by Black Mantis
Exactly. For me, Lara ceased to exist after the first game (never watched the movies). Much ado about nothing in my opinion.
Posted by ricflair
The Sun is a huge pile of sensationalist rubbish. I have no idea how the tabloids can get away with printing so many out and out lies and hardly ever get pulled up on it - freedom of speech? Yeah right.

The Sun is everything that is wrong with this bloody country. But in some people's defence, I did used to read it until I was about 19 or 20. You may, given time, grow out of it and see it for the dangerous, sensationlist, agenda setting waste of a tree that it is. Although, all the newspapers annoy me - thank god for the bbc website.

Murdoch makes me want to vomit and the sooner he dies, the better. Perhaps then I'll be able to watch live premier leahue footy at home again too.
Posted by svd_grasshopper
or you may, like everything in life, take what you want from it and discard what you KNOW to be bull.

i roll my eyes just as much times at stuff on the BBC site than i do at the sun's.

i also really like the times website.

maybe given time you'll grow UP.

the sun raised more for troops at war than any other peice of shit tabloid. the tone in the sun is FAR more professional than the rest of them, (star, mirror all that trash) they like a laugh and are a bit raunchier than the daily record. nothing wrong with that.

you can easily skip the garbage about celebs and theres all the actual news stories and interesting stuff as well.
Posted by funkymonkey18
She can't be that insecure. I heard her once in an interview say "I'm clearly not ugly". So maybe she's saying those other things for attention. "What? A man? Nooo, you're beautiful, Megan".
Posted by ricflair
Unfortunately some people are unable to work out what is bull and believe what they read, that's why I can't stand them. And the other papers are no better, they just approach it from a different angle.

People shouldn't have to work this stuff out, if it's not true - don't print it! Or if it's speculation/opinion, make sure people know that's what it is. The amount of stories newspapers have when they quote a politician or celebrity's 'friend' is a joke.

I just have a particular problem with Murdoch, with how much influence he has on a country he doesn't even come from. But mainly Fox news.

While raising money for troops is great, it hardly constitutes a NEWSpaper.
Posted by svd_grasshopper
well, believe it or not the sun does have actual news it in!!! tons of it. if people are so idiotic they cant tell whats possible fabrication or suggestion then thats their problem. 90% of their readers and indeed earthlings, know better.

i can overlook the sun's sensationalism, like i can the times' pretentiousness to get what i want from them both.

the sun is nowhere near as bad as the mirror or the star. the headline is there to sell papers. simple as that. ever heard of dont judge a book by its cover?!
Posted by ricflair
»

Oh well: I hate it, you like it. Agree to disagree as ever!!
Posted by flash501
Yup, agreed, she has it all.
Posted by nb_nmare2
The fact The Sun attracts readers who've apparently never heard of capital letters pretty much says it all (hint: when starting a sentence or typing a noun, hold down the SHIFT key for the first letter).
Posted by Bryanee1983
I dont want either in a new Tomb Raider film. As nice as they are I'd prefer it if they got an English actress who is beautiful and doesnt have to fake an English accent.
Posted by milky_joe
As much as I like Summer Glau, she'd just be totally wrong as Lara Croft.
Posted by cykosis
lol. megan fox plays the 'younger' lara croft. maybe jolie's more miffed cos of the age thing. now when are we going to see a lara croft in hot pants?!
Posted by Jensonjet
I agree with the 'get a British actress' opinion. But the simple truth is all that matters in the American movie industry is that it makes loads of money and opens the doors for more sequels. Replacing Jolie with a new, younger actress makes sense, in business terms. As with Bond, Batman, etc, it gives the film makers a chance to distance themselves from the past and try a slightly different direction; revamped and repackaged. If this Fox actress gets the role within two or three movies she'll also end up being replaced by a younger actress, and so the formula continues. Although this story is reported in The Sun and may not be true, the fact remains Angelina Jolie only has a lease on the character and was always going to be replaced as enough money was made to warrant sequels. What Tomb Raider needs more than anything is a decent script writer and director, or better still, just to disappear completely!
Posted by Sleepaphobic
if there is a god (or any sense of justice) then these 2 chicks will battle it out by mud wrestling.

hope fox wins though coz i need to see her trying to pull off a british accent; could be comedic gold.
Posted by ginsin
Jolie could actually act and put on a very good English accent. Something tells me Megan Fox can't do both - act or put on an accent.
Posted by anakin22
SVD_Grasshopper defending a tabloid paper (yes it is excactly that, no matter what you say, it's just a fact dude, get over it)
That is just so LOL!!
Posted by FearTheRobot
This story is ludicrous. Is CVG trying to rival Heat magazine in the ******** stakes.
Posted by FearTheRobot
This story is ludicrous. Is CVG trying to rival Heat magazine in the ******** stakes.
Posted by Lualua31
Megan Fox? She's ok, but I can NEVER forgive her for appearing in Transformers 2: Rise of the Lame Sex Comedy.

As for the Sun, it's one of those 'read it if its there' things. The butchering they do on certain quotes should be illegal (check out Parkys comments on Jade Goody in the Sun and then compare them to the actual interview in the Radio Times-shocking), and they're obsessed with 'campaigns'. If its not sack Russell Brand, its make Paedos into sex offender sandwiches or paint every member of the armed forces gold and place them on a diamond pedestal.

Charlie Brooker got it right on Newswipe when he basically said that due to the internet newspapers are as defunct as VHS tapes, and are desperately scrabbling for anything that sells them, true/classy or not. The last ever Sun will have Emma Watsons sixteen year old daughter getting out of a cab, while a seedy camera man practically rapes her with a camera lens under her skirt.
Posted by wkdtkd
@MIlky_Joe I can understand your concens with casting Summer Glau as Lara but Joss Whedon said in the commentary of "Waiting in the Wings" that she can do a perfect English (and Russian) accent
Posted by Skinbackking
Megan Fox is way better looking than Angelina :P
Posted by crashmer
Megan Fox (aka Jolie deadbringer) denied having received any invitation for a tomb raider role.
So there you go latest news...
Posted by blueblade
I realise lara croft is attached to this story, but who gives a sh*t. This has nothing to do with games really. CVG is probably comparable to the sun lately, with its fanboy baiting sensationalist articles (i.e Sony chief propaganda officer says xbox is rubbish! and vice versa) and now celebrity news feeds. I used to come here to read news, clever and amusing articles and fairly unbiased reviews. R.I.P CVG + Michael Jackson. SVD reads the sun, shocker
Posted by TreyTable
well, there's been.. hmmm 12,000 Tomb Raider games now.. or was that Army Men? Sorry Angie, but look what happened to the most recent Indiana Jones film. Ford is a great actor, but he's also a bit old. Besides, Angie is super-wealthy, so who gives a crap? I still thing her best performance was in "Girl.. Interrupted." All downhill from there.
Posted by TreyTable
And you wouldn't?

This is Megan Fox's foot in the door. She could go on to be Croft, and them maybe land some other good roles, or just be known as the girl from those damn sexy Transformers live action films.
Posted by ihateu
Megan Fox is tidy as fu*k but her boobs just arn't big enough for that tomb raider carry on.

I hope this story is a load of rubbish
Posted by Little Moth
I saw her in "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" yesterday, her acting has definitely improved and she's also even better looking. :D
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