Early this week here we told you about new Tomb Raider rumblings. Rumor was the franchise was being unearthed and handed over to the magical power of Megan Fox’s pert bottom. Now we have confirmation… sort of. It’s true… kind of.

HR says the Tomb Raider franchise will return and that Angelina Jolie will be replaced. Unfortunately, she’s not being replaced by Megan Fox. Well she might be, they just haven’t gotten around to casting it yet.

Warner Brothers is only in the very early stages of development on the project. Those who pay attention to this sort of thing may remember that it was Paramount who made the first two movies. Paramount has since let the rights to the franchise slip, allowing Warner Brothers to snatch them up. That’s good news really, since it’ll mean a completely fresh start for the raiding of tombs. The Angelina Jolie movies, her extreme hotness notwithstanding, were never really any good anyway.

Maybe they’ll get it right this time and in a year where we seem doomed to drown in awful movies about women’s lust for shopping, weddings, and finding the perfect guy; it might be kind of nice to know that somewhere out there, someone is making a movie about a woman who can, you know, take care herself. I’ve recent heard, from a friend, that some women even have jobs. No not secretarial positions at fashion magazines where they’re paid in handbags, like, real jobs! Actually the current movie climate being what it is, they’ll probably cast Kate Hudson as Lara Croft and have her battling shoe sales instead of crazy jungle booby-traps. Don’t laugh, it could happen.