Director Roar Uthaugh (The Wave) has taken to Instagram to confirm that the new Tomb Raider movie has officially begun production! Check out the photo below:
Academy Award winner Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) is set to play the titular Lara Croft in the video game adaptation, along with Emmy-nominated actor Walton Goggins (Justified, The Hateful Eight) as the main villain and Into the Badlands star Daniel Wu as a ship captain helping Lara Croft find her father.
Uthaug will direct the film, which has a script by Transformers: The Last Knight scribe Geneva Robertson-Dworet.
Tomb Raider will be distributed by Warner Bros. with MGM. They will produce the film with GK Films. The new Tomb Raider movie is scheduled to hit theaters March 2018.