Tomb Raider (2018) Biography, Plot, Box Office
Tomb Raider (2018)
Tomb Raider is a 2018 action-adventure film directed by Roar Uthaug, with a screenplay by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, from a story by Evan Daugherty and Robertson-Dworet. An American and British co-production, it is based on the 2013 video game of the same name, with some elements of its sequel. It is a reboot, and is the third film in the Tomb Raider film series. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, who embarks on a perilous journey to her father’s last-known destination, hoping to solve the mystery of his disappearance. Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, and Kristin Scott Thomas appear in supporting roles.
Plot:
Following the disappearance of her father, Lord Richard Croft, Lara Croft makes a living as a bike courier. She is arrested after a collision with a police car. Richard’s business partner, Ana Miller, posts her bail and urges Lara to accept her inheritance. Lara believes her father is still alive, but Ana warns Lara that the family estate, Croft Manor, will be sold off if she does not claim her inheritance. Lara reluctantly accepts and gains access to a secret chamber in her father’s tomb, where she finds a pre-recorded video message from Richard detailing his research into Himiko, the mythical Queen of Yamatai who was said to command the power over life and death.
Richard warns Lara to destroy his research, but she ignores his warnings and investigates further.
Not yet receiving her inheritance, Lara is forced to pawn the jade pendant her father gave her. With the money, Lara travels to Hong Kong where she hires Lu Ren, captain of the ship Endurance, to sail into the Devil’s Sea and the island of Yamatai. The ship capsizes in a violent storm, and Lara washes ashore, where she is knocked unconscious. She awakens only to encounter Mathias Vogel, the leader of an expedition to locate Himiko’s tomb.
Filming:
Principal photography began on January 23, 2017, in Cape Town, South Africa, and wrapped on June 9, 2017, at Warner Bros. Studios, Leavesden in Hertfordshire, England. Wilton House near Salisbury in Wiltshire was the location for exterior shots for Croft Manor. The waterfall sequence involving the plane was filmed at a waterpark at Lee Valley, outside London, at a venue that had been built for the 2012 Summer Olympics, and was combined with footage filmed in South Africa.