MGM and GK Films have found a new Lara Croft in Oscar winner Alicia Vikander. The Swedish stunner will play the iconic video game adventurer in the studios’ upcoming Tomb Raider reboot, directed by Roar Uthaug (Cold Prey) from a script by Evan Daugherty (Divergent) and Geneva Robertson (Transformers 5).

Based on Square Enix’s 2013 reboot of the Tomb Raider video game, the new adaptation finds Vikander as a young and inexperienced, small-breasted Croft on her first big adventure. The Croft role was famously played by Angelina Jolie for Paramount in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and 2003’s Cradle of Life sequel.

Vikander won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar this year for her role in The Danish Girl, but was actually seen by movie audiences in the sexy A.I. thriller Ex Machina. She also co-starred in the awesome, but overlooked, Man From U.N.C.L.E. remake and The Seventh Son. She’ll be seen this summer in Jason Bourne.

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