Deadline reports MGM and Warner Bros. have hired Amy Jump to write a sequel to the Tomb Raider movie starring Alicia Vikander.
Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander made her debut as Lara Croft in director Roar Uthaug’ Tomb Raider reboot and while she received praise for her performance as the classic video game heroine, the film itself received poor reviews and underperformed at the box office with a global total of $274 million. However, MGM and Warner Bros. are moving forward with a Tomb Raider sequel starring Alicia Vikander and have hired writer Amy Jump to pen the script. According to Deadline sources, Alicia Vikander “liked what she was” in Amy Jump’s scripting for the next Tomb Raider film.
Amy Jump’s previous credits include the Brie Larson-starring Free Fire and High-Rise starring Tom Hiddleston. Graham King’s GK Films returns as a producer alongside Elizabeth Cantillon.
The first Tomb Raider concluded with Alicia Vikander’s Lara Croft discovering that the front company of the shadowy organization called Trinity is actually a subsidiary of Croft Holdings and one of their agents manipulated her into accepting her inheritance. You can read the official synopsis for Tomb Raider below:
Lara Croft (played by Oscar winner Alicia Vikander) 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.
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Source: Deadline
