"If you have the origin story, that's a way for us to get to know our character, to feel for them, to relate to them on a more human level," star Alicia Vikander says of the new Tomb Raider movie, based on the hit video game series. This is true, but it also poses a very unique problem for the film: How to tell Lara Croft's origin when the video games already did it really, really well?
The first look at the Tomb Raider reboot gave us plenty of tomb-raiding action, with a lot of it inspired by the 2013 video game reboot of Lara Croft's escapades. The latest trailer shows us a lot of what's been added to the film beyond the inspiration of the game series - and it's pretty much all about the legacy of Lara's mysterious dad.
The upcoming Tomb Raider movie is due out next March. This film's iteration of Lara Croft is a dead ringer for her video game counterpart.
There are new Tomb Raider movies coming, which means a new cinematic Lara Croft. And while Camilla Luddington did a fantastic job in the last two games, the big screen role has gone to Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander.
