According to Comicbook, Hayley Atwell (Avengers: Endgame), who has been cast as the voice of the very iconic character of Lara Croft in Netflix’s anime adaptation Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, gave an update about the upcoming role. During an interview with Comicbook’s Phase Zero podcast about the MCU and the What If…? series, Atwell took the time to also speak about the Tomb Raider series.
According to Comicbook, Atwell shared in the podcast, “The scripts are so good and they’re so fun. And I think also I got so much practice and preparation for how to sustain the level of activity and energy with just your voice by playing Captain Carter in this way, that it set me in good stead for going, ‘This is how you, as a voiceover what it takes, for you to be confined in a small space and not seen, but totally rely on the voice to tell this story and wake up other people’s imaginations.’ So yeah, one thing helped feed the other for sure.”
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is based on the video game franchise Tomb Raider that started in 1996. The new series will pick up after the recent trilogy installment of the game franchise by Square Enix.
According to Comicbook, Square Enix’s synopsis of the series is as follows: “Picking up after the events of the highly successful Tomb Raider videogame Survivor trilogy as told in 2013’s Tomb Raider, 2015’s Rise of the Tomb Raider, and 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the animated series will chart the globetrotting heroine’s next chapter as she takes on the role of the iconic tomb raider that she is destined to become. Twenty-five years after her first game appeared, Lara continues to explore new territory.”
Netflix has yet to give a release date for the Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft but it is scheduled to premiere this year.