TOMB RAIDER REPORT
FROM PINEWOOD
Copyright 2000 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ October 10th 2000 ]
This
from a stealthy reporter on the set of Tomb Raider
at Pinewood, London... "As you know the production
of Tomb Raider is taking place at Pinewood Studios
where the people involved in the flick are heavy
at work building sets and shooting scenes. I got
to see the whole set and first I was shown the
interior of the Croft mansion which the workers
were already tearing down again because shooting
had wrapped there.
"The
inside of the Croft mansion was quite damaged
because a big fight will take place inside of
Lara's home. On the other side there of this sound
stage there was Lara's secret Computer room with
all kinds of nifty gadgets. This is where her
assistant will be during most of the movie and
monitor all of Lara's action. There was a robot
inside this room which is supposedly quite important
for the movie. At the big 007 stage they were
building the massive interior of a temple which
will be seen at the end of the movie. Another
set had the interior of a giant cave where Lara
is supposed to find a piece of an ancient artefact.
We were told that about 30 tons of water will
be used in this scene which will be released.
Somewhat like in Indian Jones and the Temple of
Doom.
"There
were some more sets of the Library and they were
actually shooting a scene with Jon Voight (Lord
Croft) at the time which involved him in a tent
somewhere in a foreign country where he was supposedly
searching for artefacts. The Plot goes something
like this: An ancient artefact which is something
like a key to the temple or similar is broken
in two halfs and hidden in different parts of
the world. Lara basically has to find these two
parts and use the key for whatever. It would not
be Lara Croft if she didn't have to fight quite
a few bad guys while doing so. In the finale some
funny monkeys made of stone will come alive and
try to kill everyone who disturbed the peace of
the sacred temple."
Earlier
this week, a Tomb Raider film unit arrived at
a South-East England RAF base to shoot a scene
involving Chinook Helicopters - Angelina Jolie
was believed to be on hand for the scene.
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