14 Facts About Lara Croft Tomb Raider

An international co-production between the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan and Germany, it was directed by Simon West and revolves around Lara Croft trying to obtain ancient artifacts in competition with the Illuminati.

Tomb Raider was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend.

The next morning, a prearranged letter from Lara Croft Tomb Raider's father arrives, explaining that the clock is the key to retrieving the halves of the Triangle of Light, an ancient object with the power to control time.

In Cambodia, Lara Croft Tomb Raider finds Powell, who has hired West, and his commandos already at the temple.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider, realizing they made a mistake, finds the correct keyhole; with only seconds left, Lara Croft Tomb Raider persuades Powell to throw her the clock.

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In Venice, Powell proposes a partnership to find the Triangle, and informs Lara Croft Tomb Raider that her father was a member of the Illuminati, and offers to use the Triangle's power to resurrect him; though reluctant, she agrees to join forces.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider retrieves the second half of the Triangle, and Powell kills the Illuminati's leader to restore the Triangle himself, but the halves will not fuse.

Tomb Raider went through many drafts and several writers, which resulted in production delays.

Lara Croft was financed through Tele Munchen Gruppe, a German tax shelter.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider was well known for coming in at last minute to help movie studios by fixing up their films which went through troubled productions and had problems with earlier cuts.

One of the special features of the film, Digging Into Tomb Raider, shows filming of another deleted scene where Lara is showering but this one takes place in some outside location.

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a 2001 soundtrack album to the film.

Director Simon West would comment a decade after its release that the creation of Lara Croft was influenced by a film market that "wasn't used to women leading summer blockbusters".

Lara Croft Tomb Raider's had all sorts of thing written about her—some obviously not true.