ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY – Lara Croft is finding her roots. Next year’s Tomb Raider reboot, adapted from the 2013 video game, portrays Croft (Alicia Vikander) as a young woman working an ordinary day job in London. A clue leads her to embark on a search for her presumed-dead archeologist father (Dominic West). “She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits,” Vikander says, “but we’ve stripped away all of her experience.

VANITY FAIR – Alicia Vikander had a major breakout year in 2015, playing both a mysterious (and eventually vengeful) robot in Ex Machina as well as a devoted wife and artist in The Danish Girl. It was the latter role that won her the Oscar and could have minted an entire career in thoughtful period dramas. Instead, for her follow-up, Vikander is going the action-heroine route, donning the iconic tank

VARIETY – Warner Bros. and MGM have dated Alicia Vikander’s “Tomb Raider” for March 16, 2018. Vikander became attached to the role of Lara Croft in April. MGM and Warner Bros are co-producing the film. They acquired the rights from GK Films which had previously purchased the film rights in 2011 from Square Enix Ltd. Graham King is serving as producer. The original “Tomb Raider” game was published in 1996

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – Alicia Vikander has signed on to star in Tomb Raider for MGM,Warner Bros and GK Films, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The movie project, which has Roar Uthaug (The Wave) on board to direct, will tell the story of a young and untested Croft fighting to survive her first adventure MGM and Warner Bros are co-producing the film with MGM overseeing production. They acquired the rights