While the two may seem contradictory - Chain Saw‘s soundtrack is an unsettling mélange of dissonant noise, while the music of Carrie is more traditionally melodic and orchestral - Coil were up to the challenge. Shortly after completing the script for Hellraiser, he told Coil that he wanted them to compose the music.īarker met with the band to discuss the soundtrack, citing Wayne Bell and Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Pino Donaggio’s Carrie scores as points of reference. Thrower eventually played him some of Coil’s music, and Barker was immediately won over.īarker was quoted as saying that Coil is “the only group I’ve heard on disc whose records I’ve taken off because they made my bowels churn.” That’s high praise coming from the master of the macabre. When Barker happened into the store, Thrower mentioned that he was a fan of his Books of Blood, and the two hit it off. Currently, Crystal Dynamics is working on the next Tomb Raider entry using the Unreal Engine 5.Ĭhristopher Young‘s brilliant Hellraiser score is nearly as synonymous with the film as Pinhead - but if writer-director Clive Baker had his way, the soundtrack would have been composed by British industrial music pioneers Coil.īarker first became aware of Coil through Forbidden Planet, the UK’s enduring genre bookshop where band member Stephen Thrower worked. As it stands, the project now is intended to be a complete reboot, with no director or stars currently attached.Ģ018’s Tomb Raider earned nearly $275 million at the global box office against a reported $160 budget.īack in May, previous owner Square Enix agreed to sell Crystal Dynamics to Swedish company Embracer Group for $300 million. The planned sequel was to be directed by “Lovecraft Country” director and producer Misha Green, and was intended to be her feature directorial debut.
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As a result, the film rights have now reverted back to video game series developer Crystal Dynamics, with the rights reportedly now in the midst of a bidding war between several studios. Per a report by The Wrap, MGM had until May of this year to get a Tomb Raider sequel off the ground, and that obviously never happened. Not only has MGM lost the film rights, but star Alicia Vikander, who played Lara Croft in the 2018 film, is no longer attached to the project. Quite the opposite, actually, as TheWrap mentioned that Alicia Vikander is now no longer attached to the Tomb Raider series, and a “complete reboot” for the franchise is likely set to happen once a studio does land the rights to make a film on the IP.Bad news for those waiting for the follow-up to 2018’s Tomb Raider film. The news of the rights being lost also means that the 2018 film will now officially stand as a solo movie, with no plans for a sequel. They didn’t, which vacated the rights and essentially set off a chain reaction that has led to many of the biggest studios in the world looking to snatch up the rights, although no official names have been mentioned as of yet. RELATED: Alicia Vikander Comments on Status of Tomb Raider SequelĪccording to a report from TheWrap late last week, MGM had until May to greenlight a sequel to the 2018 Tomb Raider film in an effort to retain the rights to the franchise.
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MGM has lost the rights to the Tomb Raider franchise, kicking off a massive bidding war for the video game franchise’s film and TV rights that has a ton of companies interested.
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