![]() It's the same glacier seen in Bond movie Die Another Day, and about 20 miles east of icy landscapes seen in Christopher Nolan's Interstellar.Īnother bit of British fakery has Windsor Great Park, Berkshire, briefly standing in for the steamy 'Cambodian jungle' as Lara sprints through the undergrowth. The 'Siberian' location is Jökulsárlón Glacier Lagoon, formed by the retreating Vatnajokull glacier – the largest in Europe – on the southeast coast of the country, about 40 miles east of Skaftafell National Park and 250 miles from Reykjavik. ![]() It’s not a terribly long flight – the arrival was filmed on Salisbury Plain also in Hampshire (it’s costly to fly ’copters out to Iceland, which was standing in for ‘Siberia’. Daniel Craig, cast as Angelina Jolies companion Alex Marrs in the upcoming Paramount Pictures production of Tomb Raider, will soon be the target of. Lara boards the ’copter for ‘Siberia’ at RAF Odiham, in north Hampshire. She travels to dangerous and mysterious locales around the globe in search of rare, lost crypts and long. The 1965 film of Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim, with Peter O’Toole, is one of the few other films to be shot at Angkor Wat. Daniel Craig has a shower scene halfway through the movie almost. Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) was born into wealth and groomed at the most elite schools. There’s no public transport between the monuments, so check for guided tours. The village was no more than a set built around a small ornamental pond.Īs Cambodia recovers from its troubled past, a modest tourism industry is beginning to blossom, learning to balance economic gain with inevitable concerns about the effect on the ancient buildings. Of course, this was the film that cemented Jolies. The most famous, Angkor Wat itself (the largest religious monument in the world and a World Heritage site), looms over the Cambodian village. Mostly interesting now for seeing all the decent actors (Daniel Craig, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor) slumming here. The most spectacular temple of all, entwined with enormous trees, where Croft encounters the mysterious girl, is Ta Prohm. He assumed supporting roles as a land manager in I Dreamed of Africa (2000), as the romantic interest of the title adventuress in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She tools up and scoots off in her Land Rover in front of the sacred Bayon Temple, in Angkor Thom, its 54 towers, each bearing four enigmatic smiling faces. The Cambodian temple complex, where Croft must retrieve the half of the triangular MacGuffin, is at Siem Reap in Cambodia, where she arrives, with game-style ease, onto Phnom Bakheng, a hill topped by a Hindu temple (though the site later became a Buddhist centre). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider location: the temple complex: Angkor Thom, Cambodia | Photograph: iStockphoto / xuujie
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