{"id":42554,"date":"2016-04-28T14:02:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/?p=42554"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:24:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:24:55","slug":"alicia-vikander-cast-as-lara-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/alicia-vikander-cast-as-lara-croft\/","title":{"rendered":"Alicia Vikander Lands Coveted Role of Lara Croft in New Tomb Raider Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite <em>Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#8217;<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/2016\/03\/21\/daisy-ridley-confirms-tomb-raider-talks\/\">Daisy Ridley<\/a> being in talks to star as Lara Croft in the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.30\/hitlist.asp?theme=Tomb+Raider&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\"><em><strong>Tomb Raider<\/strong><\/em><\/a> film, the role has ultimately gone to another person.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (<em>The Danish Girl, Ex Machina<\/em>) has landed the coveted role at the Warner Bros, MGM, and GK Films production.<\/p>\n<p>The film, directed by Roar Uthaug, will follow lead character Croft, who hails from the popular video games series, as she journeys on her first adventure.<\/p>\n<p>Vikander is an indisputable talented actress, although this type of film will be a new challenge for her. She starred in <em>The Man from UNCLE<\/em> last year, which saw her getting in on the action, and she&#8217;ll be in this year&#8217;s <em>Jason Bourne,<\/em> but headlining her own franchise, one that is deeply steeped in action and adventure, will certainly be different.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tomb Raider<\/em> is set to arrive next year, but has no release date yet.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft? Sound off below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/heat-vision\/alicia-vikander-star-as-lara-888593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Star Wars: The Force Awakens&#8217; Daisy Ridley being in talks to star as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider film, the role has ultimately gone to another person. Instead, Oscar-winning actress Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina) has landed the coveted role at the Warner Bros, MGM, and GK Films production. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,108],"tags":[4134,3145,112,682,3530,681,1162],"yst_prominent_words":[5954,6035,8744,32109,32107,21405,6413,27301,10578,27300,7480,5780,21406,10577,32108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64289,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42554\/revisions\/64289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42554"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}