Bond was subsequently played by Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig. After George Lazenby proved an inferior replacement in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” (1969), Connery returned once more for “Diamonds Are Forever” (1971). JAMES BOND Sean Connery’s wit was as dry as a martini as 007 in five films between 19. The fourth entry, “The Falcon’s Brother” (1942), marked a passing of the torch as Tom Conway, the real-life brother of Sanders, assumed the role of the Falcon for nine more movies. THE FALCON George Sanders starred as the sophisticated sleuth in three movies. He was replaced by the similarly non-Asian-looking Sidney Toler, who starred as Chan in 22 films until his death in 1947. (Cue the usual ancient technology and booby traps.) There, Lara will meet her father’s deadly rival, Mathias Vogel, played by the indispensable Walton Goggins (“The Hateful Eight,” HBO’s “Vice Principals”).Īlicia Vikander steps into Angelina Jolie’s butt-kicking shoes as Lara Croft in “Tomb Raider.” Here are four film franchises that also got a face-lift when a new actor took over as the main character.ĬHARLIE CHAN Swedish actor Warner Oland played the Chinese detective in 16 films before succumbing to bronchial pneumonia in 1938. (The screenwriting team includes Geneva Robertson-Dworet, of Marvel’s upcoming “Captain Marvel.”) When a new clue inspires Lara to follow her dad’s trail, she hires a handsome young boat captain, Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), to take her to a tiny Japanese island where Himiko, a mythical Japanese queen, is purportedly buried. Her father (Dominic West) is still a vanished adventurer, but now Lara is an aimless urbanite who can’t bring herself to claim her vast inheritance. Lara also gets a back story that lends her some depth. In that moment, the new Lara Croft goes from video game avatar - which is how she began, in the mid-1990s - to a bona fide character we actually care about. Both begin with sparring-partner scenes, but while Jolie’s Lara used martial arts and bullets to defeat a robot in the first film, Vikander’s Lara gets a beatdown from a better-skilled opponent in a London kickboxing gym.
What’s more, over the course of this surprisingly entertaining film, Lara takes far more punishment than she dishes out.įans of this dormant franchise will notice the difference between the new and original “Tomb Raider” movies immediately. Lara Croft, the strutting superwoman with thigh-mounted pistols first played by Angelina Jolie in 2001, returns in the unlikeliest of incarnations in the reboot “Tomb Raider.” Now played by Alicia Vikander, Lara is a rugged but vulnerable heroine who wears functional sportswear and doesn’t even carry a gun.
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