Remember when Angelina Jolie took down the Illuminati in booty shorts and thigh-strap gun holsters? Warner Bros. hopes so: They just dropped the first full peek at the world’s newest Lara Croft, The Danish Girl’s Alicia Vikander, who takes the reins from Jolie as the tank-top sporting, ass-kicking, bow-and-arrow-slinging archeologist in next year’s Tomb Raider reboot. The latest version, after 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the 2003 sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, gives us Lara’s origin story—namely, why she seemingly just can’t stop raiding those tombs.
Dominic West plays Lara’s late father (a role originated by Jolie’s actual father, Jon Voight), who appears as a swarthy adventurer-type who dies under mysterious circumstances. Adrift after the loss, Lara vows to find out what really happened to him in the last place he was known to be alive: a menacing mythical island off the coast of Japan. Walton Goggins of Sons of Anarchy and Justified plays the villain, with Daniel Wu and Kristin Scott Thomas supporting. From the trailer, it looks like we’ll be getting all of the explosive action of the video games and older films, with updated effects. We already know that the new Lara has been hitting the gym—hard.
Tomb Raider hits theaters in March 2018.
