Alicia Vikander to play Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider

Shakyl Lambert
Shakyl Lambert | April 28, 2016
Alicia Vikander to play Lara Croft in the new Tomb Raider

“Ex Machina” star and recent Oscar-winner Alicia Vikander has signed on to play Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, reports Variety.

The reboot is distributed by MGM and Warner Bros, and co-produced by GK Films. The film will follow the plot of the 2013 reboot, following Lara’s origin story. Norwegian director Roar Uthaug will helm the project.

Lara Croft was previously portrayed on screen by Angelina Jolie in 2001 and 2003. The films have grossed a combined $432 million at the box office.

Shakyl Lambert
Shakyl Lambert

Hailing from the gritty streets of…a suburb outside Toronto, Shak has thrived on becoming a walking encyclopedia of millennial pop culture. From a very early age, he gained an adoration for film, television and video games that hasn’t subsided in the years since. Now a film writer for CGMagazine, he has dedicated his life to gaining as much knowledge of useless trivia as his brain will allow. If he isn’t trying to clear his endless film and video game backlogs, you can catch him getting overly hyped about everything from hip-hop to wrestling on Twitter and TikTok.

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