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What We're Reading: Who Should Play Lara Croft?

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 The success ratio of feature films adapted from video games is currently hovering around the 0% range.  However, an argument could (and has) been made that one of the possible exceptions from that trend was the Angelina Jolie series of "Tomb Raider" films.

The pair of movies took in a combined $425+ million world wide and while certainly not beloved by critics, managed to garner a community of fans.

Still, the game's main hero, Lara Croft, has to this day remained one of the video game world's most recognizable and popular female characters (possibly the most of all time) and thus efforts to rebirth the film franchise have continued.

It has been known for some time that any such rebirth would have to be done without Angelina Jolie in the title role which opens up the big question:

WHO SHOULD BE THE NEXT ACTRESS TO PLAY LARA CROFT?

The folks over at iO9 took this question to task in a recent article which is the subject of our "What We're Reading" segment today.

Some of the names they offer up are:

Amanda Seyfried
Minka Kelly
Kristen Kreuk
Kim Kardashian

They also talk about rumors of "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart being approached about the role.

You can head on over and read the article here .

QUESTION: Do you have any suggestions as to who you'd like to see play Lara Croft?

Source: iO9  
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