The reboot of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films is releasing next year, and Alicia Vikander is taking over from Angelina Jolie in the action-adventure film.
Catch the trailer here:
The Tomb Raider franchise began as a highly popular video game, featuring millionaire heir Lara Croft as an archaeologist and adventurer who travels the world to beat up bad guys and “rescue” rare archaeological treasures from the clutches of evil men.
And keeps it for herself.
The reboot, produced by Warner Bros and MGM, features Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft. Alicia Vikander is an Academy award winning actress who starred in The Danish Girl and Ex Machina. The film also features Dominic West, Daniel Wu, and Walton Goggins. Directed by Roar Uthaug, the film comes on the 20th anniversary of the release of the first video game in the franchise.
Lara Croft has changed a lot since we first saw her.
The first video game – only partly limited by the technology and processing speed back then, featured a boxed-up, unrealistic video game character.
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Over the years, the character became more realistic, more kick-ass. It also helped that the original game’s Lara was voiced by one of the best British actors and comedians – Keely Hawes, making Lara, the video game character more believable and warm.
Angelina Jolie became Lara Croft, at which point the game and the character became less of an archaeologist and more of an action movie.
The latest reboot — at least from the trailer — seems to go further away from the history/archaeology/treasure seeking mode of Lara Croft, and more into the beat up bad people and have adventures in far away exotic lands mode.
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