Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft has been experiencing a little bit of a renaissance lately. Just final month, the twin pistol-wielding explorer featured as a visitor character in Call of Duty: Warzone alongside the likes of pop star Nicki Minaj and ‘90s superhero Spawn. Snap to right now and now we’ve bought our first official take a look at her upcoming Netflix animated collection.
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, a brand new anime developed by Legendary Television, was unveiled throughout Netflix’s Drop 01 livestream, an occasion the place the streamer gave viewers a peak in any respect its upcoming reveals, together with online game variations like Devil May Cry, Castlevania: Nocturne. Unlike Netflix’s painfully temporary DMC anime teaser trailer, which didn’t share a lot data outdoors of a fast take 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 will probably be voicing the online game heroine and that the present will choose up after the occasions of Crystal Dynamics’ online game reboot trilogy. Here’s the trailer:
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We first realized Netflix was engaged on a Tomb Raider anime again in 2021. According to a report by Deadline, the present was green-lit after the end result of Crystal Dynamic’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider. In our evaluation of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which asks if Croft is “a treasure-plundering jerk who wrecks different individuals’s cultures,” we mentioned that the sport matured Croft from being the “gritty survivor we met in 2013 [into being] a extra complicated character who truly talks to the individuals 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 fairly than reverting again to considered one of her extra cartoonish incarnations.
