However, to qualify for Section 48 tax relief, the production must include some UK filming and British actors, which was acceptable for a film partially set in the United Kingdom. The copyright was then sold again to Lombard Bank, a British investment group and a further $12 million was made. By selling them the copyright for $94 million and then buying it back for $83.8 million, Paramount Pictures made $10.2 million. The tax law of Germany allowed investors to take an instant tax deduction even on non-German productions and even if the film has not gone into production. Lara Croft was financed through Tele München Gruppe (TMG), a German tax shelter. The final draft of the script was attributed to five writers, including director Simon West. de Souza, who wrote and directed the 1994 video game film Street Fighter, penned an early draft of the Tomb Raider script in 1999, but it was rejected by Paramount. Friedman, who had co-written Mortal Kombat: Annihilation the year before, penned an unproduced Tomb Raider script. Tomb Raider went through many drafts and several writers, which resulted in production delays.

Richard Johnson as Distinguished Gentleman.After a hand-to-hand fight, she kills Powell, retrieving her father's pocket watch and escaping the tomb.īack in her manor, Lara visits her father's memorial and finds that Bryce has reprogrammed the robot, and Hilary presents her with her pistols, which she takes with a smile. The tomb begins to collapse, and all flee but the wounded Powell, who reveals to Lara that he murdered her father. Returning to the tomb, Lara manipulates time to save West and stab Powell, and destroys the Triangle. In a 'crossing' of time, Lara faces the memory of her father, who urges her to destroy the Triangle for good rather than save his life. Lara complies, but seizes the Triangle herself. Realizing Lara knows the solution, Powell kills West to persuade her to complete the Triangle to restore West's and her father's lives. Lara 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. Entering the tomb, they discover a giant orrery, which activates as the alignment nears completion. Lara and Bryce travel with Powell, West, and the leader of the Illuminati to Siberia. In Venice, Powell proposes a partnership to find the Triangle, and informs Lara 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. She escapes with the first piece recovering at a Buddhist monastery, she arranges a meeting with Powell. West, Powell, and his remaining men flee with the clock, leaving Lara to defeat an enormous six-armed guardian statue. She unlocks the first piece of the Triangle, and the statues of the temple come to life and attack the intruders. Lara, realizing they are mistaken, finds the correct keyhole with only seconds left, Lara persuades Powell to throw her the clock. West solves part of the temple's puzzle, and Powell prepares to insert the clock at the moment of alignment. In Cambodia, Lara finds Powell, who has hired West, and his commandos already at the temple. Her father tasks her to find and destroy both pieces before the Illuminati can exploit the Triangle's power. After misuse of its power destroyed an entire city, the Triangle was separated: one half was hidden in a tomb at Angkor Cambodia, and the other in the ruined city located at Ukok Plateau, Siberia. The next morning, a prearranged letter from Lara'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. That night, armed commandos invade the house and steal the clock, bringing it to Powell. Lara shows Powell photographs of the clock, which he claims not to recognize. Lara shows Wilson the clock, and he puts her in touch with Powell. On her way to consult a friend of her father's, Wilson, Lara crosses paths with Alex West, an American associate and fellow adventurer. Lara awakens to a mysterious ticking, and finds a strange clock hidden inside the manor. Lara's father Lord Richard Croft, long missing and presumed dead, appears to her in a dream. Manfred Powell assures the cabal that the artifact is almost ready, but has no real idea of its location. In Venice, as the first phase of a planetary alignment begins, the Illuminati search for a key to rejoin halves of a mysterious artifact, 'the Triangle,' which must be completed by the final phase, a solar eclipse. Adventurer Lara Croft defeats a robot in an Egyptian tomb, revealed to be a training exercise arena in her family manor, where she lives with her technical assistant Bryce and butler Hilary.

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