U2 RESCUED BY
LARA CROFT
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Sonic
[ April 7th 2001 ]
Following
recent rumours linking Irish rock group U2 with
Elektra's upcoming Tomb Raider movie soundtrack,
Sonic reports today that Angelina Jolie will star
in the new "Elevation" video as Tomb Raider star
Lara Croft, sent the rescue The Edge from their
evil selves:
In a
bizarro battle of the bands, U2 will duke it out
with an evil version of themselves in their upcoming
video for "Elevation" but not before The Edge
is kidnapped by the bandmembers' doppelgängers
and then rescued by Angelina Jolie. The clip,
to be shot this weekend in Los Angeles, will blend
U2 and the upcoming "Tomb Raider" movie into one
giant action piece, according to director Joseph
Kahn (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys).
Jolie,
who stars in the film's lead role as a real-life
version of video game heroine Lara Croft, will
provide the thread between the two and help merge
the story lines. The clip begins with Bono discovering
that guitarist The Edge has been kidnapped by
the evil U2. After Croft rescues him, U2 and the
evil U2 rival each other in a street jam. "The
U2 as you know them want to save the world, but
the evil U2 want to destroy the world," Kahn said.
There was no word on which U2 will prevail in
the end.Kahn said he came up with the treatment
but spent some time traveling with the bandmembers
on tour to get their input. Although most of the
video will be shot over the weekend, Jolie will
shoot her scenes separately in Seattle next week.
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