New ‘Tomb Raider’ Trailer Has Lara Going Full Croft

Warner Brothers has released the a new trailer for ‘Tomb Raider‘. Based on the best-selling series of video games with the same name, the film follows Lara Croft (Alicia Vikander) as she attempts to uncover the mysterious disappearance of her father.

It’s Dominic West‘s Richard Croft that seems to be both the focus of the plot, but the trailer itself. The trailer showcases more of the action, which seems to be in line with what we’ve seen in the more recent video games, and less like the stylized action of the first stab at the franchise with ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider‘. And then there’s Walton Goggins, who by my estimation, is probably the best thing that the movie has going for it. Hopefully this film will finally be able to break the curse of lackluster video game adaptations, but only time will tell.

Here’s the official trailer for ‘Tomb Raider’, along with the official synopsis below. The film opens March 16, 2018.

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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.