We've known for a while that Alicia Vikander would be starring at Lara Craft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot film, and now we know courtesy of Entertainment Weekly that the film will actually be sticking closely to the 2013 video game, portraying Croft as a woman starting a day job in London before embarking on a search for her father, an archaeologist she presumed was dead.
"She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits," Vikander herself said, "but we've stripped away all of her experience. She hasn't gone on an adventure just yet. She thought he was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information. This is the beginning."
"I was surprised that my mum knew what Tomb Raider was," she added. "That's due to the fact that Angelina Jolie made Lara Croft such an icon. But this is a beautiful way of showing a very loved character from more angles."
You can also see a new picture of Alicia Vikander in the role below. Is the 2013 Tomb Raider game a good game to base a film on?