Netflix is plotting a new set of adventures for its version of Lara Croft.
The streamer has renewed its animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season. The pickup was a relatively quick one, coming just two weeks after the eight-episode first season premiered.
Based on the long-running Tomb Raider video game franchise, The Legend of Lara Croft follows the adventurer (voiced by Hayley Atwell) after the events of Square Enix’s video game reboot trilogy. The show aims to fill in a gap in Croft’s story between the reboot trilogy (which served as something of an origin story for the character) and the original games.
Season two, per Netflix, will find Lara discovering a trail of stolen African Orisha masks. “She joins forces with her best friend Sam (voiced by Karen Fukuhara in season one) 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 season one voice cast also includes Allen Maldonado and Earl Baylon in regular roles, while Richard Armitage, Zoe Boyle, Roxana Ortega and Nolan North recurred.
Legendary Television produces The Legend of Lara Croft. Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin) is writer and executive producer; additional EPs are include dj2 Entertainment founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson, Timothy I. Stevenson, Jacob Robinson (via his Tractor Pants company), Dallas Dickinson and Noah Hughes of video game developer Crystal Dynamics, Howard Bliss and Jen Chambers. Powerhouse Animation is the animation studio, with Brad Graeber serving as executive producer.
Source: Hollywoodreporter
