Based off the Square Enix Tomb Raider Games
The character of Lara Croft hasn’t graced movie screens since 2003’s Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life that starred Angelina Jolie in the starring role. 15 years later, the franchise is getting a movie reboot with Academy Award Winner, Alicia Vikander, as the leading lady. The first trailer for the new Tomb Raider has dropped and as you can tell, it’s taking a much different approach than the last Tomb Raider film.
Alicia Vikander’s portrayal of Lara Croft takes inspiration from the video game reboot in 2013 from Crystal Dynamics. This is a Lara Croft at the beginning stages of her career, determined for adventure but forced into a difficult situation that molds her into the character we know today. In the trailer, there are definite callbacks and scenes ripped from both Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Below is a full synopsis of the movie:
Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.
Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who—against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit—must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.
Tomb Raider also stars Dominic West, Walton Goggins, and Kristen Scott Thomas as co-stars to Vikander. The movie will be out March 16th, 2018.
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