The Netflix Tomb Raider series avoids that problem altogether by. Despite iffy responses to their Tomb Raider movies, both Jolie and Vikander received praise, but casting Lara Croft is a delicate business. Perhaps we’ll get lucky, and the finished Tomb Raider movie will forgo all that in favour of telling a simple story about a girl who saves the world with her freakish springy-snake-in-a-peanut-can neck. Where Tomb Raider movies feel obliged to maintain a relentlessly frantic pace, a multi-part animated series can explore the light and dark. After all, we’ve yet to hear her say either of the two sacred gap year mottos – “They don’t value life as much here” and “These people have nothing, but they’re so happy”. Tomb Raider is the latest video game adaptation from Powerhouse Animation Studios, following previous successes like Castlevania. Perhaps the film will have a bit more depth and all this gap-year malarkey has only been forced into the trailer for the purposes of exposition. The animated series isn't the only upcoming adaptation of the franchise, with a sequel to Alicia Vikander's 2018 film Tomb Raider having been confirmed with Misha Green set to write and direct. Obviously I’m basing all this on the trailer. Hers was so inspired by the first Christopher Nolan Batman film that she’s gone all out to replicate it as accurately as possible, up to and including having loads of money, a vast corporation named after her, dead parents and a slightly uncomfortable tendency to equate anything Asian in origin with mystical woo-woo. That clearly isn’t the Lara that Vikander is playing. I saw both previous Tomb Raider movies, so I know that Lara is actually a bored-looking woman with a suspicious accent, a robot called Simon, a memory card entitled “ Lara’s Party Mix” containing the worst music ever heard by human ears and a weird compulsion to pull slow-motion sex faces whenever she needs a wash. Vikander certainly isn’t playing a Lara Croft I recognise. Netflix and Legendary Television have found their Lara Croft.
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