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Tomb Raider Reboot Rumor: Bigelow Could Direct

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Tomb Raider is getting a reboot on the big screen, and a new rumor has pegged some high-profile directors as possibly being up for the helming job on the newest adventures of Lara Croft.

According to The Tracking Board, word has it that the producers of the film are looking at three potential directors: Kathryn Bigelow, Catherine Hardwicke and Mimi Leder.

This trio of female directors certainly have the chops to make Tomb Raider relevant again in cinemas. Bigelow won the Oscar for The Hurt Locker, while also being behind films such as Zero Dark Thirty, Strange Days, Near Dark, and of course Point Break. Mimi Leder has been working mostly in TV these days (The Leftovers, Shameless) but made films like Deep Impact and The Peacemaker in the late 1990s. And of course Hardwicke’s biggest picture was the first Twilight film.

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