The First ‘Tomb Raider’ Teaser Features Alicia Vikander Cheating Death

Tomb Raider‘s first trailer is going to drop later today, but we already have a little bit of the footage as well as a new poster. Alicia Vikander (Ex Machina) is playing Lara Croft, specifically the young, shipwrecked, first-time adventurer version from the 2013 video game which saw the character finding new and ever more acrobatic ways to die.

Here’s the full synopsis for this Tomb Raider movie, although it’s strangely absent any mention of punching sharks.

Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone. Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.

Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who — against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit — must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.

If she pulls that off, it may even lift the curse.

Tomb Raider punches sharks (or doesn’t) this March 16th, 2018.

(Via Tomb Raider and Regal Movies)