In an exclusive from the AV Club, we found out that a new Jennifer Walters aka She-Hulk series is going to be launched, but with some obvious and not so obvious changes. The new series will be focusing on Jennifer Walters‘ life after the events of Civil War II and how she adapts emotionally to the death of her cousin Bruce Banner aka the...
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(Ever so slight SPOILERS for Don’t Breathe) We here at the Legion love strong women. In our comics, our movies, our video games, our TV shows, and everywhere really. Not only are strong women examples for others, regardless of gender, they help to level the playing field. Ellen Ripley showed that a woman could hold her own as the hero of...
Deadline has reported that Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina, The Danish Girl) will take over playing the iconic Tomb Raider character Lara Croft in MGM GK Films, and Warner Brothers’ reboot of the franchise. Angelina Jolie was once the face of the film, based on a video game by Eidos (now owned by Square Enix). Vikander certainly fits...
UPDATE: MARCH 10, 2016 10:11AM PST: Warner Bros. has no comment on the report. We’d love to hear what you think! Daisy Ridley who played Rey in Star Wars: The Force Awakens may be in the running for another iconic role. According to Deadline, she’s one of the actresses being considered to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb...
Latino Review has reported on a rumor posted by The Tracking Board, stating that the producers for the Tomb Raider film reboot (we already have the video game reboot) are closing in on three potential directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Mimi Leder, and Catherine Hardwicke. Aside from my first thought being that Bigelow seems like a long-shot (she’s the...
Back in the day, movies based on comic books were hit-and-miss. Statistically they were mostly misses, or just mediocre. Now we raise said movies to an astounding standard for all summer popcorn flicks. If comic books can be huge cash cows today, why not give video games a try…again? Right? Guys? Video games? Okay. I see your hesitation...
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. I love the fact that even way back when, she was the lead character in the game with no apologies. Never liked her design. No issue with the boobs, in case you’re wondering. I didn’t like the torture porn of the last game. Then there are those movies… Still...
Today we have some new images from the upcoming Square Enix game Rise of the Tomb Raider. The pics come to us from EW, which spoke to art director Brenoch Adams. Adams told the site that Crystal Dynamics is going to send Lara Croft to ” “We are building awe-inspiring tombs littered with deadly traps, puzzles and ancient texts,”...
Bye bye, booth babes! There was a noticeable number of women present at E3 2015 last week — on the floor, on the stage, in the video games… Everywhere! From Bethesda to Sony, about half of the video games shown at each press event featured playable female characters. Some even had female players demo said games! I mean, for crying...
We’ll be covering E3 all week! Make sure you follow @LegionofLeia for live tweets from the show floor! Square Enix just released six minutes of gameplay from the upcoming sequel Rise of the Tomb Raider during the Microsoft E3 2015 presentation. As always, it’s pretty brutal. I’ll leave it to you guys in the comments here...