The sequel "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" will be released March 19, 2021. It is reported by Deadline.

The production of the painting will be undertaken by Briton Ben Wheatley - the author of the paintings "Shootout" and "High-Rise". The script of the film will be written by Amy Jump, who has already collaborated with Wheatley while working on a number of other films. Alicia Vikander will return to the role of tomb raider. The plot of the sequel has not been disclosed.

The first film with the participation of Vikander as an adventure seeker was shot by the Norwegian Roar Ukhtaug. Released in 2018, the picture is based on the computer game of the same name, restarted in 2013, and talks about the youth of Lara Croft.

According to the plot of the tape, Lara is the daughter of the missing researcher and archaeologist Richard Croft. The heroine refuses to believe in the death of her father and decides to figure everything out on her own. Croft discovers among the records of Richard Croft information about what he was doing shortly before his disappearance and decides to continue his research by going to a lost island. There, Croft faces the Trinity organization, which seeks to stage global genocide.

Rebut Ukhtauga failed in the American box office - with a budget of $ 94 million, only $ 58 million was managed to be raised. At the same time, Lara Croft managed to attract an international audience, and as a result, world fees amounted to $ 274 million.

The most recognizable character in computer games

The game Tomb Raider, taken as the basis for the script for feature films, was released in 1996 and in fact immediately became a hit.

The premiere of the first film adaptation of a computer game took place in 2001. The role of the tomb raider was performed by the Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie. At the same time, the creators of the film did not immediately choose Jolie: such actresses as Jennifer Love Hewitt, Famke Janssen, Demi Moore, Denise Richards, Catherine Zeta-Jones and even Jennifer Lopez tried on the role of Lara Croft.

Despite the fact that “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” received mostly negative reviews from critics, the film managed to raise a good box office - $ 47 million for the first weekend. In total, the tape raised more than $ 270 million. The film became one of the most profitable movie adaptations of computer games of that time. It was in the role of Croft that Angelina Jolie became truly famous, and critics praised the work of the actress.

  • © Shot from the movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001)

Two years later, in 2003, the sequel “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2 - The Cradle of Life” was released, which became less successful from a commercial point of view. The fees in the United States could not cover the production budget of $ 95 million. The cash desk of $ 156 million was collected thanks to an international audience.

In 2006, Crystal Dynamics studio, which was developing Tomb Raider, decided to restart the game and released a story and chronologically unrelated to previous episodes of the decade Tomb Raider: Legend. Seven years later, the game underwent a second restart.

The new version of Lara Croft is 21 years old, and she decides on the first big adventure in her life. The restart script was written by the daughter of the English writer Terry Pratchett Rihanna.

Jolie or Wikander


In 2011, GK Films acquired the rights to the movie version of the 2013 video game, but for a long time the project remained at the initial stage, since the idea had to be implemented in co-production with larger movie studios. Soon, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Warner Bros. joined the project. Alicia Vikander was invited to play the role of young Lara Croft.

Many fans reacted to the choice of the creators of the picture in favor of the Swedish actress ambiguously. Most naturally compared Wickander with Angelina Jolie, and the latter was often preferred.

Vikander herself was philosophical in her comparisons with her predecessor. In an interview, she noted that, since the film adaptation with her participation is based on a restarted game, then comparisons with Jolie are somewhat irrelevant. Wikander emphasized that the concepts of sexuality and attractiveness have changed dramatically over the past two decades. She also noted that she likes to embody on the screen the image of twenty-year-old Lara Croft, moonlighting as a courier.