In a new interview with EW for the film as well, Alicia Vikander talks about what separates her version of Lara Croft from Jolie?s, simultaneously confirming that the film will be an origin story for the character. Similar to the general trajectory of the 2013 video game reboot, Vikander revealed that Tomb Raider will pick up with Lara as a girl stuck in a day job in London, who journeys into the unknown after an unlikely clue hints at the possible survival of her presumed-dead father:
?She has all the fierce, tough, curious, intelligent traits, but we?ve stripped away all of her experience. She hasn?t gone on an adventure just yet. She thought he was a stuck up businessperson living in the modern youth culture of suburban London, but then this whole box of information. This is the beginning.?