Marvel’s Hayley Atwell Will Voice Lara Croft in a Tomb Raider Anime Series

Though many know her from her live-action roles, Hayley Atwell’s current look in Marvel’s What If…? made clear that the British actress is greater than able to bringing characters to life utilizing simply her voice alone. While Atwell’s set to pop up a minimum of another time earlier than What If’s first season is over, she’ll be lending her vocal skills to yet one more animated venture ahead of later.

Today Netflix introduced that Mission Impossible’s Atwell has signed on to voice Lara Croft in a brand new Tomb Raider anime sequence produced in partnership with Legendary Television. The new present, which is at the moment untitled, is about throughout the identical continuity as Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics’ current trilogy of rebooted Tomb Raider video games and picks up a while after the occasions of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Red Sonja), is connected to write down and government produce, Dmitri M. Johnson (Sonic the Hedgehog, Life is Strange), Howard Bliss, Stephan Bugaj, and Jacob Robinson are additionally slated to government produce. No phrase but on different solid members.

When final we noticed this incarnation of Croft, she’d journeyed to Mexico looking for a solution to forestall an oncoming apocalypse set off by individuals getting their arms on two historical relics. By the tip of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara had resolved that whereas she actually liked raiding others’ remaining resting locations, her skills had been higher suited in direction of safety of those places. Aside from specializing in Lara’s newest journey, Netflix and Legendary didn’t say a lot about what all the brand new sequence can be about, however given the considerably extra “realistic” and “grounded” path the newer video games have taken in comparison with their predecessors, the present might very effectively observe swimsuit.

That being stated, the brand new venture being an animated, episodic story might positively lend itself to a bit extra of the fantastical and action-packed aspect of the Tomb Raider model which may not essentially work as effectively in a live-action film or a recreation aiming for some semblance of realism. Currently, there’s no phrase on when the present may start manufacturing, or when it’s meant to debut on Netflix, however we’ll preserve you up to date as extra information turns into accessible. But should you’re searching for some TV to look at, there’s lots on the way in which.

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