Tomb Raider 2 Director Shot A Horror Movie In 15 Days During Quarantine

Director Ben Wheatley made a name for himself with the critically acclaimed High Rise but will more than likely be talked about later in the year with his adaptation of Rebecca from Netflix coming out in October. While he's been chosen to helm to next Alicia Vikander-led Tomb Raider movie, supposedly coming out in 2021, Wheatley already has his next project wrapped up.

He shot a horror movie over 15 days in August in the middle of his coronavirus lockdown. Though not going into heavy details about the film, Wheatly describes the project as a response to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the result of a datedness that he perceived in the titles released to VOD that couldn’t take the new status quo into account.

In a recent interview with Little White Lies, it seems that Wheatley recharges his creative batteries by going just going back to what he knows in between big time gigs.

"I've said it a lot, but I think I've always seen it as there being genres of subject but also genres of budget, and those genres of budget are micro-budget, low-budget, mid-budget, and high-budget, which make for totally different filmmaking experiences," the director said.

A horror movie will bring him back to where he started as he broke onto the scene. He made the movies Kill List and contributing to the horror anthology The ABCs of Death before stepping into bigger and star-studded offerings like High Rise, which garnered a few industry award nominations. His Tomb Raider sequel will be his first foray into franchise films as well.