The Tomb Raider reboot starring Alicia Vikander has now cast its villain for the film which will focus on a younger version of Lara Croft.
The new Tomb Raider will be a reboot of the movie franchise which previously saw Angelina Jolie playing the tomb raider herself, Lara Croft. It will star Alicia Vikander and be directed by Roar Uthaug.
Now, thanks to Variety, we’re learning that Walton Goggins is set to play the film’s main villain, though no further details have been released, meaning we don’t know if his character will be original or someone recognizable from the video game.
Goggins is best known for playing Billy Crash in Django Unchained, as well as Sheriff Chris Mannix in The Hateful Eight.
His latest role is as Lee Russell on the television show Vice Principals. He’ll also be appearing in Six, a mini series coming in 2017 about Navy SEAL Team Six.
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.