News > Minnie Driver to star as Lara Croft in new animated series
July 6, 2007
Written by: Josh Karp
An animated Minnie Driver sounds about as exciting as an animated Winston Churchill. Yay! It seems that someone over at Game Tap thought differently. To each their own, I suppose. According to TVGuide Minnie Driver, of recent Rags to Riches fame, has been "tapped" to play the voice of Lara Croft in an upcoming Tomb Raider miniseries. The show will air in 10 parts on Game Tap's website. Check out what the company had to say about the series:
“World-famous writers and artists are each doing their own version of Lara Croft, telling a different story the way they see the character,” says Ricardo Sanchez, vp of content for GameTap. Recruiting talent to reimagine the video-game icon, he says, was “really really easy... everybody had either played the game, seen the movies or read the comics, and all had great preconceptions about the character that they wanted to explore or debunk.”
Hmmm. Sound pretty terrible to me, though if they have the type of production budget that allows for the hiring of "stars" such as Minnie Driver, perhaps the series will be executed with at least a modicum of professionalism.
