7 Upcoming Movies That Will Change How You See Iconic Characters
1. Tomb Raider: Giving Lara The Batman Begins Treatment
There's no guarantee it will pull this off, but the Tomb Raider reboot's intention is to do for Lara on cinema what the 2013 video game revival did for her on consoles.
The Alicia Vikander-fronted reimagining aims to prove there's more to Ms Croft than cheap thrills and titillation by giving her the Batman Begins treatment.
If successful - and the trailers suggest there's an outside chance it might be - the film will establish big-screen Lara as a strong heroine with enough brains, brawn and guts to rival Indiana Jones in his heyday.
In order to do that, it might have to change the perception of video game adaptations first, given that they're almost exclusively terrible.
But at the very least, Tomb Raider has already proven that it's more than lowest-common-denominator stuff like the Angelina Jolie movies.
What movies to do you expect to change iconic characters? Share your thoughts down in the comments.