Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft has been experiencing a little bit of a renaissance lately. Simply final month, the twin pistol-wielding explorer featured as a visitor character in Name of Obligation: Warzone alongside the likes of pop star Nicki Minaj and ‘90s superhero Spawn. Snap to at the moment and now we’ve bought our first official have a look at her upcoming Netflix animated sequence.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, a brand new anime developed by Legendary Tv, was unveiled throughout Netflix’s Drop 01 livestream, an occasion the place the streamer gave viewers a peak in any respect its upcoming exhibits, together with online game diversifications like Satan Might Cry, Castlevania: Nocturne. Not like Netflix’s painfully transient DMC anime teaser trailer, which didn’t share a lot data exterior of a fast have a look at Dante doing a cool flip, the trailer for Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft delivered some substantial particulars. Chief amongst them is that actress Hayley Atwell can be voicing the online game heroine and that the present will decide up after the occasions of Crystal Dynamics’ online game reboot trilogy. Right here’s the trailer:
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We first realized Netflix was engaged on a Tomb Raider anime again in 2021. Based on a report by Deadline, the present was green-lit after the end result of Crystal Dynamic’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider. In our evaluate of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which asks if Croft is “a treasure-plundering jerk who wrecks different folks’s cultures,” we mentioned that the sport matured Croft from being the “gritty survivor we met in 2013 [into being] a extra advanced character who truly talks to the folks she meets on her travels and understands the gravity of her actions.” Hopefully, Netflix’s anime will proceed to construct on this rising new characterization slightly than reverting again to one in all her extra cartoonish incarnations.
