Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft

Tomb Raider is an upcoming anime series being produced by Legendary and published by Netflix. It will be published in 2023.

Season One
To be added.

Season Two
To be added.

Cast

 * Hayley Atwell as Lara Croft

Development
It was announced in January 2021 that an animated series was being produced, set in the Survivor Timeline, continuing the adventures of Lara Croft. In June, Powerhouse Animation was announced as the animation studio for the series. On May 28th, 2021, showrunner Tasha Huo announced on Twitter, that the writing of the series has ended. On August 23rd, 2021, Huo stated on The Act Two Podcast that the first season would be 8 episodes long, at 22-minutes each. On September 1st, 2021, Variety reported that the series was sold to Netflix with a two-season order, meaning that a second season was guaranteed, and likely produced at the same time as the first. On a later episode on Sepember 27, it was said that the series would be available on Netflix in 2023.

Casting
On September 13, 2021, Deadline reported that Hayley Atwell had been cast as Lara Croft in the series Atwell stated on Instagram, "It has been a real pleasure recording this for Netflix and Legendary. Written and executive produced by the brilliant Tasha Huo." - indicating that she had already made some progress on the project.

Rumors

 * Twitter user "Lara Croft for Smash Bros." tweeted on August 10, 2021 that they had seen casting information that suggested Zip would return in the anime as a reoccurring character. They also stated that the series would follow Lara Croft on a road trip, travelling the world and protecting people.
 * What's On Netflix later corroborated the appearance of Zip on September 13, 2021.

Trivia

 * This is the second animated series in franchise history. The first was Revisioned: Tomb Raider Animated Series.
 * Powerhouse Animation also created CastleVania, another video-game adaptation, for Netflix.
 * The series marks the first appearance of Hayley Atwell as Lara Croft. She succeeds Minnie Driver, who voiced Lara in the Revisioned animated series.
 * When asked why she is not involved with the project, Camilla Luddington responded with ambiguous emote.
 * Earl Baylon, voice of Jonah Maiava from Tomb Raider (2013) to Shadow of the Tomb Raider, expressed interest on Twitter to appear to the series.
 * Shelley Blond gave her support to Atwell upon the announcement of her casting.