So Who's the Next, Er Younger Lara Croft?

Angelina Jolie reportedly says she's sealing her involvement in the Tomb Raider franchise.  So far, she says she's happy with the last film in 2003: Lara Craft: Tomb Raider — The Cradle of Life.

"The first one [Lara Croft: Tomb Raider] kind of frustrated us, because we were trying something new. The second one, I felt like that's kind of how I wanted to do it, and I don't really feel the need to do another one," says Jolie.

Which is all right because producer Graham King is planning on a "young and dynamic" Lara Croft for the Tomb Raider reboot.

They can, of course digitally erase the years off Angelina's face, like they did to her hubby Brad Pitt in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but in the end, it's still up to the actress.

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Now, for the game to be released this 2001 by Square Enix, succinctly-titled Tomb Raider.   

This being the origins game, Lara Croft is just 21 years old, stranded on an island after having been shipwrecked, and must constantly find water and food and fend for herself whilst grappling with her new self-discovery about her fondness for ransacking ancient tombs.  

Game Informer warns the new Tomb Raider will be dark and gritty (note Lara Croft's bloodily stranded photo), somewhere along the lines of the new Batman Arkham City and James Bond.  Nice.

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Sidebar: Frankly, Lara Croft's ultra-short shorts aren't great, on a pragmatic point of view.  If you're a tomb raider and you explore craggy caves and all, you'd better put on something longer that'll amply protect those supple legs and all.  

Then again, no one likes to watch a prude raiding tombs.