While looking for Lu Ren in Hong Kong, her backpack is stolen, and she gives chase to the thieves. Having no money she bonds her necklace that her father gave her. Lara, curious by nature, looks into the research, and decides to follow the leads found there. Richard has left Lara a message there to destroy the research on Himiko, before it falls into wrong hands. Lara visits the manor, where her father's tomb is, and uncovers a secret room. Lara gets distracted by the puzzle, and leaves the papers unsigned. Lara gives in to Ana, and meets with the lawyer, who hands Lara the puzzle-box her father left her.
Lara has put of signing the required papers to get her inheritance, and is in danger of losing everything her father has worked for, including the company and the manor. Lara takes part in a bike "fox-hunt" as a fox to earn a quick cash, she almost wins, but ends up crashing into a police car. The owner of the gym reminds Lara that she is behind on her membership payments. Lara Croft trains in a gym, where she has a quite serious fight with another member. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.Lara Croft, the fiercely independent daughter of a missing adventurer, must push herself beyond her limits when she finds herself on the island where her father disappeared.
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. But her mission will not be an easy one just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. 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. 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. 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. Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Here’s the official synopsis for Tomb Raider: Tomb Raider opens in theaters on March 16, 2018. Scripted by Geneva Robertson-Dworet ( Captain Marvel), the film also stars Dominic West, Walton Goggins, and Daniel Wu. Of course, we still have yet to see a great video game movie come our way and Angelina Jolie led two underwhelming Tomb Raider adaptations in the 2000s, but there’s certainly reason to be optimistic about this one-especially with Walton Goggins playing the film’s villain.Ĭheck out the new Tomb Raider movie poster below.
Croft leaves behind her old life and goes in search of her father’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island off the coast of Japan.Īll the footage we’ve seen thus far from director Roar Uthaug’s ( The Wave) adaptation has been promising, showcasing a slightly grittier Indiana Jones vibe to the whole ordeal. The Oscar-winning Danish Girl actress leads the long-in-the-works video game adaptation as a 21-year-old bike courier in East London who refuses to follow in her father’s entrepreneurial footsteps. Warner Bros. and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures have released a new poster for the upcoming Tomb Raider movie, and while it may be simple, it gets the point across: don’t mess with Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft.