Although Alicia Vikander‘s Tomb Raider wasn’t a hit with me, it helped reinforce the notion that there was a desire to have more female-led action films. And now it looks like the sequel may have found its director.

According to new reports, Free Fire‘s Ben Wheatley has been tapped to direct the Tomb Raider sequel, and he will be using a script written by Amy Jump. More on the report below.

A new gameplay walkthrough video has been released for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, the third installment in the rebooted video game series.

The new video is titled “Welcome to Paititi” and introduces a new location. Paititi is described as the largest hub that’s ever been created for a Tomb Raider game. In it players can find side missions to complete, discover crypts and tombs, and barter for new outfits, weapons, and more.

Click on over to the other side for more info on the game and to check out the new gameplay video.

A new trailer for the third game in the rebooted Tomb Raider game series, titled Shadow of the Tomb Raider, was released for E3 2018, and that was followed by a gameplay reveal video offering us our first look at the game in action.

This latest game in the series sees Lara Croft navigating a jungle environment as she races to try to prevent the Mayan apocalypse. You can read more about the game and check out both the new trailer and gameplay reveal video below.

Square Enix, Eidos-Montréal, and Crystal Dynamics officially unveiled the latest game in the rebooted Tomb Raider game franchise, the trilogy-maker titled Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with a new trailer recently.

The full trailer, titled “The End of the Beginning,” offers us more insight into what’s going on in the next game, and makes a little more sense of some of the few things we have seen in the past, like that shot of Lara Croft and the solar eclipse we saw when the game was first announced last month.

Continue below for more and to give the trailer a watch.

Tomb Raider
Director: Roar Uthaug
Screenwriter: Geneva Robertson-Dworet, Alastair Siddons
Story By: Evan Daugherty, Geneva Robertson-Dworet
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas
Distributor: Warner Bros.
Rated PG-13 | 118 Minutes
Release Date: March 16, 2018

The quality of the video game gameplaying experience continues to progress at an impressive rate. More and more games are weaving a cinematic feel that gives the player a more fulfilling and entertaining play. But it’s not the same for films based on video games. Most, if not all, are dead on arrival. The frustrating part of all of it is that these films take away the interactive experience and leaves them with something they could have enjoyed more at home.

Tomb Raider is a lot like that. On certain levels, it is one of the most physically demanding roles for Alicia Vikander, who takes up the title role. On others, it is yet another film adaptation of a video game franchise that repeats the same mistakes of its predecessors by failing to engage its audience with at least a decent story and relies too much on the video game elements to keep things interesting. Check out my full review here below.