--- title: Tomb Raider 2018: Alicia Vikander First Look as Lara Croft description: The 'Tomb Raider' reboot will hit theaters March 16, 2018. canonical: https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-19T07:10:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T17:29:16.492Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Your First Look at Alicia Vikander as the New Lara Croft og:description: The 'Tomb Raider' reboot will hit theaters March 16, 2018. og:url: https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Your First Look at Alicia Vikander as the New Lara Croft twitter:description: The 'Tomb Raider' reboot will hit theaters March 16, 2018. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's the First Look at Alicia Vikander as the New Lara Croft by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Sep 19, 2017 7:10 AM UTC by [Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly Sep 19, 2017 7:10 AM UTC Alicia Vikander is ready for action. Warner Bros. and MGM have shared the first official poster for the upcoming _Tomb Raider_ reboot, starring Vikander as the globetrotting archaeologist Lara Croft. The reboot comes more than 15 years after Angelina Jolie first brought the video game adventurer to the big screen, and the new _Tomb Raider_ finds Croft as an ordinary 21-year-old living in London. Haunted by the apparent death of her archaeologist father (Dominic West), she soon sets out on a high-stakes mission to find him. “She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits,” Vikander [told EW earlier this summer,](http://ew.com/movies/2017/07/13/tomb-raider-alicia-vikander-lara-croft/) “but we’ve stripped away all of her experience. She hasn’t gone on an adventure just yet. She thought \[her father\] was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information. This is the beginning.” > [](https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/909811228142313472) Roar Uthaug (_The Wave_) is directing, with Walton Goggins on board as the film’s villain. A [short teaser ](https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/909817585595703296/video/1)also dropped Monday, a day before the film’s first trailer is set to premiere: > [](https://twitter.com/tombraider/status/909817585595703296) _Tomb Raider_ will hit theaters March 16, 2018. _This_[ _article_](http://ew.com/movies/2017/09/18/tomb-raider-alicia-vikander-lara-croft-poster/) _originally appeared on_ [_Ew.com_](http://www.ew.com) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/"},"headline":"Here's the First Look at Alicia Vikander as the New Lara Croft","datePublished":"2017-09-19T07:10:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T17:29:16.492Z","description":"The 'Tomb Raider' reboot will hit theaters March 16, 2018.","url":"https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/","keywords":["movies","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Devan Coggan / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4947592/alicia-vikander-lara-croft-tomb-raider/","name":"Here's the First Look at Alicia Vikander as the New Lara Croft"}}]}] ```