It might only be Monday, but we’ve got our first big sneak peek of the week as the first image of Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft has landed online. Vikander will take over a younger iteration on the role made famous, on the big screen, by Angelina Jolie. Sadly neither of Jolie’s outings were particularly brilliant meaning the bar that new director Roar Uthaug (great name) has to meet is very low. That being said from the looks of this image, it appears this might be the version to do the gaming heroine justice. It definitely captures the spirit of the recent games which have also focused in on the young raider of tombs.
The official synopsis is thus:
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 arrives in cinemas worldwide from 16th March 2018, just around 350 days to go…
