Editing Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (section)

===Post-production===
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Simon West's first director's cut of the film was 130 minutes long, before it went through re-shoots some time later after principal photography was finished. West was removed from working on the film in post-production, however he did return to work on re-shoots. Editor [[Stuart Baird]] was brought in by Paramount to re-edit the film. Baird was promised the job of directing ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'' by Paramount in exchange for re-editing original 130-minute cut of this film and John Woo's original 210-minute cut of ''[[Mission: Impossible 2]]''.

Due to post-production taking longer than expected, some major effects were left unfinished by the time the film was released in theaters. Baird re-edited the film down to 88 minutes. One of the bigger cuts on the film was changing the original score. Originally, [[Nathan McCree]] was hired to compose the score, as he had composed the music for the first three Tomb Raider games. Greg Hale Jones started to work on the score with Peter Afterman in November 2000, after production was finished, and [[Danny Elfman]] composed the main theme for the film. Jones later said how once West was fired from the film, his score and Elfman's theme were shelved. [[Michael Kamen]] was then hired and submitted demos, and composed a full score which was rejected once the film was re-edited by Baird. [[Graeme Revell]] was then brought in and he had to compose sixty minutes of music inside ten days. [[Jerry Goldsmith]] was also attached to score the film, but he couldn't due to health problems at the time.<ref>David Hughes - Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made, Page 231, Interviews with De Souza and Revell; "de Souza alleges that West went 'many, many millions over budget and two months over schedule, so the minute he turned in his interminable 130-minute cut, Paramount showed him the door. They didn’t even let him in the editing room.' Whether or not this is true — West was later invited back to direct minor reshoots in London, and provides director's commentary for the DVD — Paramount brought in Stuart Baird [...] to re-cut the entire movie. 'Stuart Baird has an executive producer credit on the movie,' notes de Souza, 'but all he did was re-cut the movie down to eighty-eight minutes (plus generous head and tail credits).' The studio also rejected the original music score by Michael Kamen (The X-Men), commissioning Pitch Black composer Graeme Revell to produce a new soundtrack — sixty minutes of music — in the space of ten days. [...] So rushed were the final stages of post production, that several major effects shots appeared incomplete by the time the film hit theatres."</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://moviemusicuk.us/2001/06/15/lara-croft-tomb-raider-graeme-revell/#more-3729|title = LARA CROFT – TOMB RAIDER – Graeme Revell|date = June 16, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.movie-wave.net/titles/tomb_raider2.html|title = Silvestri: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jerrygoldsmithonline.com/spotlight_lost_scores.htm|title = Jerry Goldsmith Online Spotlight the Lost Scores}}</ref>

Despite the fact that a large amount of the film was cut, only four deleted scenes, seven minutes long in total, were included as extras on the film's DVD and Blu-Ray releases. Trailers for the film showed more deleted scenes. In July 2001, Simon West stated that he had prepared alternate version of the film for a DVD release which would include deleted scenes, but this version was never released. Angelina Jolie's nude scenes were also cut out for a PG-13 rating.

Some of the earlier scripts for the film included more scenes focusing on Lara's sex appeal, like Lara flashing her breasts to some villains as a distraction ([[Steven E. de Souza|Steven E. de Souza's]] February 1999 script), using her breasts to crush a giant millipede ([[Mike Werb]] & [[Michael Colleary|Michael Colleary's]] November 1999 script). Jolie later stated that she was disappointed with how Lara's sexual appeal was scaled down, and how she thought Lara wasn't sexy enough in the final film.<ref>David Hughes - Tales From Development Hell: The Greatest Movies Never Made? - Chapter 12; Tomb Raider Chronicles - Why making the leap to the big screen was the toughest challenge Lara Croft had ever faced, Pages 211-235</ref><ref>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Blu-ray, Digging Into Tomb Raider (29 minutes)</ref><ref>Jeannette Walls, MSNBC Scoop, September 27, 2000</ref><ref>Simon West interview, Empire Magazine, July 2001</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/lara-croft-tomb-raider-angelina-jolie-dissatisfied-movie-character-wasnt-sexy-enough.html/ | title='Lara Croft: Tomb Raider': Angelina Jolie Was Dissatisfied with the Movie Because Her Character Wasn't 'Sexy Enough' | date=March 5, 2022 }}</ref>