Alicia Vikander's $275M Survival Thriller Top Streaming Charts Ahead of Prime Video Remake

A couple that works on video game adaptations together stays together. Alicia Vikander and Michael Fassbender first worked with each other in Derek Cianfrance‘s The Light Between Oceans a decade ago. They recently reunited to share the screen in director Na Hong-jin‘s divisive new sci-fi movie Hope, which premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Vikander and Fassbender are also perhaps the only married couple who starred in two separate video game adaptations that failed to launch franchises in the same decade. Fassbender’s movie, Assassin’s Creed, was released to poor reviews in 2016, and grossed around $240 million worldwide against a reported budget of $125 million. Vikander’s movie debuted two years later. It was more successful with both critics and audiences, and even though it didn’t get a sequel, it seems to be drawing crowds to this day.

This week, Vikander’s movie was among the most-watched titles on the domestic HBO Max charts. According to FlixPatrol, it outperformed Tim Burton‘s legacy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the blockbuster franchise-starter Despicable Me, the fizzy rom-com Crazy Rich Asians, and the highest-grossing A24 movie ever made, Marty Supreme. We’re talking, of course, about Tomb Raider. The movie was directed by Roar Uthaug, who has had an unusual career trajectory. Typically, non-American directors would make a breakout hit in their respective countries and then be lured to Hollywood with the promise of riches. In the case of Uthaug, he directed Tomb Raider, and then returned to Europe to deliver the most successful non-English language movie in the history of Netflix: Troll.































































Collider Exclusive · Action Hero Quiz
Which Action Hero Would Be
Your Perfect Partner?

Rambo · James Bond · Indiana Jones · John McClane · Ethan Hunt

Five legends. Five completely different ways of getting out alive — with style, with muscle, with charm, with luck, or with a plan so intricate it probably shouldn’t work. Ten questions will reveal which action hero was built to have your back.

🎖️Rambo

🍸James Bond

🏺Indiana Jones

🔧John McClane

🎭Ethan Hunt

01

You’re dropped into a dangerous situation with no warning. What do you need most from a partner?
The first few seconds tell you everything about who belongs beside you.





02

You have to get somewhere dangerous, fast. How do you travel?
How you get there is half the mission.





03

You’re pinned down and outnumbered. What does your ideal partner do?
This is when you find out what someone is really made of.





04

The mission is paused. You have one evening to decompress. What does your partner suggest?
Who someone is when the pressure drops is who they actually are.





05

How do you prefer your partner to communicate mid-mission?
Good communication is the difference between partners and a liability.





06

Your enemy is powerful, well-resourced, and has the upper hand. How should your partner approach them?
The approach to the enemy defines the partnership.





07

Things go badly wrong and you’re captured. What do you trust your partner to do?
Who someone is when you need them most is the only thing that matters.





08

What does your ideal partner bring to the table that you couldn’t replace?
A great partner fills the gap you didn’t know you had.





09

Every partnership has a cost. Which of these can you live with?
No one comes without baggage. The question is whether you can carry it together.





10

It’s the final moment. Everything is on the line. What do you need from your partner right now?
The last question is the most honest one.





Your Partner Has Been Assigned
Your Perfect Partner Is…

Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.

Rambo

Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.

James Bond

Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.

Indiana Jones

Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.

John McClane

Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.

Ethan Hunt

Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.

Tomb Raider Fans Can Finally Expect a New Live-Action Version of the Character

He even got to direct a sequel to Troll, a mark of success he couldn’t celebrate with Tomb Raider. The video game adaptation was released in 2018 to mixed reviews, and it ended up grossing $275 million worldwide against a reported budget of around $100 million. The movie now holds a 52% score on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, where the consensus reads, “Tomb Raider reboots the franchise with a more grounded approach and a star who’s clearly more than up to the task — neither of which are well served by an uninspired origin story.”

After years of uncertainty surrounding Vikander’s return, the franchise is set to be rebooted again, this time with a Prime Video streaming series headlined by Sophie Turner and developed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.


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Release Date

March 16, 2018

Runtime

118 minutes

Director

Roar Uthaug


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