Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is bringing gaming’s iconic heroine into all-new medium this October, when the series’ first animated show debuts on Netflix. The story will take place after the events of the most recent games, and will cast Hayley Atwell as the buxom British adventurer. And in an interview with Nerdist, showrunner Tasha Huo has revealed a little more about what we can expect.
The story will bridge the gap between the naïve Lara from the Crystal Dynamics’ recent trilogy of games to the quippy, confident character from the 90s titles.
“Lara has been burdened with grief since the 90s, but I feel like she’s never fully gotten over it,” Huo revealed. “And I wanted to move past it, to be honest, so that she could start working on other things, but it felt like we still had to address it. So in this first season, she is dealing with grief and we watch her power through to figure out how to become her best self after that so Lara can start working on other sh*t.”