Tomb Raider, which just recently found an actress to fill its leading role, now has a release date set for 2018.
The new Tomb Raider will be a reboot of the movie franchise which previously saw Angelina Jolie playing the tomb raider herself, Lara Croft. Now Alicia Vikander will star, directed by Roar Uthaug.
According to Collider, Warner Bros. and MGM set the release date for March 16, 2018, putting the film just under two years away.
March is a solid time for the movie to debut. Most summer blockbusters premiere later in the year, but as films like Deadpool have proven, you don’t have to release your movie in June or July to garner attention and plenty of revenue.
The reboot will focus on 2013’s Tomb Raider video game, which showed Lara Croft as an archaeology student for the first time. The first installment of the reboot video game franchise saw Lara on her inaugural mission, with the followup game, Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015), taking place a year later.
Though we don’t know the exact details of the plot yet, so far it sounds like Vikander’s tomb raider will be much younger, meaning it’s possible for this film to exist in the same universe as Jolie’s films. (Who doesn’t love dissecting shared universes and complicated timelines!?)
Alicia Vikander, known for Ex Machina, The Danish Girl, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E., can next be seen in Jason Bourne, due out on July 29. Another upcoming film of hers, titled Tulip Fever, has been delayed until February 2017.
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