Lara Croft July 2010. Yahoo! Movies and IGN credit Jolie's role in the first "Tomb Raider" film with significantly raising her profile and propelling her to international super-stardom, respectively. Jolie commented that young children would ask her to sign objects as Lara Croft. After filming for the first movie at the Cambodian temple Ta Prohm, the local inhabitants called it the "Angelina Jolie Temple" and local restaurants served Jolie's favourite alcoholic beverage advertised as "Tomb Raider cocktails". IGN's Jesse Schedeen described Croft as one of few characters to receive a decent videogame-to-movie adaptation. By 2008, the first "Tomb Raider" movie was the
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider several writers, which resulted in production delays. In 1998, writer Brent V. Friedman, who had co-written "" the year before, penned an unproduced "Tomb Raider" script. Producer and screenwriter Steven E. 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. The final draft of the script was attributed to five writers, including director Simon West. "Lara Croft" was financed through Tele München Gruppe (TMG), a German tax shelter. The tax law of Germany allowed investors to take an instant