Netflix has announced that Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will return for a second season. The animated series based on the long-running video game series premiered on the service on October 10, 2024 with a total of eight episodes.
Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Red Sonja) is serving as executive producer and writer on the series, with Brad Graeber also serving as executive producer. Powerhouse Animation is the animation studio for the series.
Meanwhile, the main voice cast includes Hayley Atwell as Lara Croft, Allen Maldonado as Zip and Earl Baylon as Jonah Maiava.
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Netflix describes the second season of the series as:
When explorer Lara Croft (voice of Hayley Atwell) discovers traces of stolen African Orisha Masks, she joins forces with her best friend Sam to retrieve the precious artifacts. Lara's thrilling new adventure takes her around the world as she digs deeper into the hidden secrets of Orisha's history, avoiding the machinations of a dangerous and mysterious billionaire who wants masks for her. himself, and discovers that these relics contain dark secrets and a power that defies logic. In fact, the power can be divine.
Netflix previously announced a new Tomb Raider animated series for 2021. It takes place after the “Survivor Trilogy” games, which serve as a reboot of the action-adventure video game series released from 2013 to 2018.
The first Tomb Raider game was released in 1996 for the Sega Saturn, MS-Dos and PlayStation. Following the 2003 game Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, the series' lead developers switched from Core Design to Crystal Dynamics (who were also involved as producers on the new series). The Survivor trilogy was preceded by another reboot trilogy (released between 2006 and 2009) currently known as the Tomb Raider Trilogy, with the second installment being a remake of the original Tomb Raider.
The long-running video game franchise also inspired two live-action film adaptations in 2001 and 2003, and a reboot in 2018.
Netflix describes Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft as:
The animated series TOMB RAIDER: THE LEGEND OF LARA CROFT takes place after the events of the highly successful Tomb Raider video game Survivor trilogy (Tomb Raider; Rise of the Tomb Raider; Shadow of the Tomb Raider), and will charts the next chapter of the world-traveling heroine as the iconic explorer protagonist. More than 25 years after her first appearance, Lara Croft (voiced by Hayley Atwell) continues to uncover ancient mysteries and discover lost truths in breathtaking and dangerous destinations.
Source: press release