Despite two entries, one commercially successful, the
other a
box -
office disappointment, and a fifteen - year fallow period, the rights owners behind the Tomb Raider series decided to bring it back, replacing one Oscar winner for Best Supporting Actress, Angelina Jolie, with another, Alicia Vikander, giving Vikander's Lara Croft something Angelina Jolie's iteration never received, an origin story.