Megan Fox as Lara Croft? Maybe.

Although this assumption is based on pretty much no facts whatsoever, it seems Megan Fox is the likely candidate to play Lara Croft in the next intsallment of Tomb Raider. E! says:

Warner Bros. has confirmed plans to relaunch—and completely overhaul—the hot-pants-wearing, artifact-collecting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider franchise, with the first major casualty being Jolie.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the third film will completely reboot the video-game-based character, including changing her origin story (most likely shying away from her English aristocracy roots), and introduce new kinds of missions, love interests and villains.

While producers say an actress likely won't be cast until a writer and director have signed on, Megan Fox has emerged as the frontrunner replacement, at least as far as the blogosphere is concerned.

So a bunch of geeks with their geeky blogs want to see Megan Fox strap some guns to her hips and roll around ancient pyramids in a sexy outfit. No kidding. That doesn't mean it's gonna happen, so you can pretty much ignore this article. I just wanted an excuse to post these pictures of Megan when she was like 18.

1.29.09 at 09:34:11 AM