The good news is, there’s a new trailer out today for Netflix’s anime take on Tomb Raider, The Legend of Lara Croft — and it doesn’t recycle any of the footage from previous trailers! The bad news is…it doesn’t really offer any new information regarding the plot either.
What we’ve known for months now is that the anime uses the Survivor Trilogy version of Lara and sets its story after the conclusion of Shadow Of The Tomb Raider. Seems Lara has become insular and “abandon[ed] her friends to embark on increasingly more perilous solo adventures.” This means she’s not around to keep an eye on her home, and since she locked the butler in the freezer again, no one was around to stop someone from sneaking in and stealing one of her already-collected artifacts.
Said artifact is “dangerous and powerful” and the thief had “an uncanny personal connection” to Lara. Well, that mess isn’t gonna mop itself up. Lady Croft is forced to get over her funk, return home, and embark on a series of death-defying missions to get the item back before it does whatever it does. The new trailer flashes across many different locations, and every time we see Lara, she’s never in the same outfit twice (but if you had her money, wouldn’t you?)
The final shot is Lara grunting to pull herself up a rope next to a cliff face while her name is slowly spelled out in giant block letters. Hayley Atwell is cast as the character, but has no real lines in the trailer. Hope she says stuff — she’s known for talking; she’s not Samus Aran.
Powerhouse, the studio that animated the Castlevania anime and Masters Of The Universe: Revelation / Revolution, is also working on this one. Seems whenever Netflix needs an action cartoon based on an established IP they know who to call. Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft premieres on Netflix October 10.
