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Here’s the first look at Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft

Check out Alicia Vikander all decked out as Lara Croft for the upcoming Tomb Raider film

March 28, 2017

Here’s the first few looks of Alicia Vikander in her role as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider flick.

Vikander will be taking on the role that was previously held by Angelina Jolie, who starred in the previous two films based on the popular video game series. While Lara Croft is coming back to the screen, this version has a new backstory and motivations. The heir to a global business empire (but of course, no interest in that whatsoever) she eventually starts investigating her father’s disappearance and it leads her to a tomb on an island somewhere off the coast of Japan.

Here’s the official plot description:

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.