{"id":107918,"date":"2019-04-15T12:55:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=107918"},"modified":"2019-04-15T12:55:27","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T11:55:27","slug":"tomb-raider-sequel-with-alicia-vikander-and-a-new-writer-in-the-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/tomb-raider-sequel-with-alicia-vikander-and-a-new-writer-in-the-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider sequel with Alicia Vikander and a new writer in the works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alicia Vikander is officially set to return as Lara Croft in a sequel to MGM and Warner Bros&#8217;\u00a0<em><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/em>, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/movies\/2019\/04\/12\/tomb-raider-2-alicia-vikander-amy-jump\/?utm_content=link&amp;utm_term=0389AA82-5D49-11E9-BADC-93BC4744363C&amp;utm_campaign=entertainmentweekly_ew&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com\">EW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you were excited about the prospect of a new\u00a0<em><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/em> film back in 2018 but were let down when it actually hit cinemas, all hope is not lost yet: the sequel also has a new writer on board in the form of Amy Jump.<\/p>\n<p>Jump is known for adapting JG Ballard novel\u00a0<em><strong>High-Rise<\/strong><\/em> for Ben Wheatley&#8217;s 2015 film starring Tom Hiddleston, as well as writing the script for Wheatley&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>A Field In England<\/strong><\/em> and co-writing his 2016 film\u00a0<em><strong>Free Fire<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Plot details for the\u00a0<em><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/em> sequel are currently being kept under wraps, and the film doesn&#8217;t yet have a director attached.<\/p>\n<p>The first film, which was helmed by Roar Uthaug and written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Alastair Siddons, didn&#8217;t fare too well with critics upon its release, but it still managed to sweep in $274.7 million worldwide at the box office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The untitled<\/strong> <em><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/em><strong> sequel doesn&#8217;t yet have a release date. Get all the latest sci-fi news with every issue of SciFiNow.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a Tomb Raider sequel in the works with Alicia Vikander and writer Amy Jump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":107919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3073],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/MV5BMjMwNDI5MzIxNl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwMzcwMDY3NDM@._V1_.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}