Misha Green to Write, Direct ‘Tomb Raider’ Sequel Starring Alicia Vikander

Deadline is reporting that MGM has hired Misha Green (Underground, Lovecraft Country) to write, direct and make her feature directorial debut on the next Tomb Raider film, which has Oscar winner Alicia Vikander set to reprise her role as Lara Croft.

Vikander’s first turn in 2018’s Tomb Raider grossed around $275M at the global box office. MGM’s Tomb Raider will be released theatrically in the U.S. via the studio’s distribution and marketing joint venture United Artists Releasing, and internationally through Warner Bros.

Tomb Raider will be produced by Graham King via his GK Films banner, and Elizabeth Cantillon via The Cantillon Company.

Green is the showrunner and executive producer of Lovecraft Country, alongside Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams and based on the novel by Matt Ruff. She separately wrote and is producing The Mother for Netflix and is also producing Warner Brothers’ Cleopatra Jones and Makeready’s The Gilded Ones. Green previously co-created, executive produced and wrote the WGN series Underground, which broke ratings records during its first season and was the first scripted U.S. television show that focused on slavery and the Underground Railroad