According to The Hollywood Reporter, the streamer has renewed Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season. Surprisingly the series gets picked up for a second season quickly as it has only been two weeks since it premiered its eight-episode first season on the streamer.
The series is based on the Tomb Raider video game franchise. The series follows the events of the recent Square Enix video game reboot trilogy. The Legend of Lara Croft series aims to fill in Croft’s story between the events of the video game trilogy.
“She joins forces with her best friend Sam to retrieve the precious artifacts,” the logline reads. “Lara’s thrilling new adventure takes her around the globe as she delves deeper into the hidden secrets of Orisha history, dodges the machinations of a dangerous and enigmatic billionaire who wants the masks for herself, while discovering these relics contain dark secrets and a power that defies logic. Power that may, in fact, be divine.”
The voice cast for the first season of the series includes Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) as Lara Croft, Karen Fukuhara (The Boy and the Heron) as Sam Nishimura, Earl Babylon (Batman: Arkham Shadow) as Jonah Maiva, Allen Maldanado (The Wonder Years) as Zip, Richard Armitage (Doctor Who: The Novel Adaptations) as Charles Devereaux, Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey) as Camilla Roth and Roxana Ortega (Santa Clarita Diet) as Abby Ortiz.
The series is produced by Legendary Television and written and executive produced by Tasha Huo (Red Sonja: The Legend Begins). Executive producers for the series also include dj2 Entertainment founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson (It Takes Two), Timothy I. Stevenson (The Eliminator), Jacob Robinson (Skull Island), Dallas Dickinson (In the Devil’s Land) and Noah Hughes (Whiplash) of video game developer Crystal Dynamics, Howard Bliss (Rough Science) and Jen Chambers (Youth & Consequences).
Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is available to stream on Netflix.