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Lara croft new film12/4/2023 ![]() Lara’s friend Sam ends up being their next target. Instead of spending years looking for her tomb like Trinity does in the movie, they were looking for young women to put through a deadly fire ritual to see if the woman’s body was a fit for Himiko’s soul. Trinity wasn’t the main antagonist group of Tomb RaiderIn the game, Yamatai is the home of the Solarii Brotherhood, a group of men that worship Himiko and were determined to find the Sun Queen's successor. Lu Ren and his father didn’t have a place in the game. They worked together in the video game to survive the island, save Sam from a cult, and find a way home. ![]() Lu Ren didn't exist Instead of having only one companion for her first adventure, Lara was joined by seven others, including Sam who she's met in college and her guardian Conrad Roth. Lara’s best friend, Samantha Nishimura, was tasked with recording their adventure, and her family helped fund the trip. James Whitman whose looking for his hopeful comeback to stardom. Lara joins her first major expedition to find Yamatai with popular archeologist Dr. Lara was invited on an expedition to YamataiWith Richard Croft mostly out of the picture in the game, Lara has an entirely different motive for going to Yamatai in Tomb Raider. In the movie, Lara chose not to go to university and instead works as a courier. She learned her survival skills from her guardian, Conrad Roth. Lara was an archeologistThough Lara still rejected her inheritance in the video game version of Tomb Raider, she still went to school, worked odd jobs to support herself, and became an archaeologist. In the movie, he’s in charge of the business Croft Holdings and practices archeology in secret, kind of like Batman, but much less interesting. His reputation went down the drain when he started to look for rituals for resurrection after his wife passed away. Lara's father was an archeologist Unlike in the film, Lara's father was a successful and popular archaeologist. Lara is assumed to have been under Ana's care. In the movie, her father was seemingly absent for most of her childhood while he looked for Himiko’s secrets. Following the incident, family friend Conrad Roth took Lara in his care and she was estranged from the estate that point forward. Lord Croft’s death is made to look like he committed suicide. She grows too attached to the Croft family and another Trinity agent is assigned to finish the job. Ana, an agent of Trinity, was tasked with getting close to and murdering Lord Richard Croft. When Sam survives the ritual (courtesy of a supernatural gust of wind), the cult aim to transfer Himiko’s spirit into her body, which would destroy her soul in the process.Lara's father is very deadLara largely grew up without her father in the video game. The Solarii eventually kidnap Sam for a fire ritual which will determine whether or not she is Himiko’s successor. ![]() Marines and the Japanese military for projects in the past) stranded there indefinitely. The game plays up Himiko’s supernatural powers, which are invoked by the Solarii and often keep shipwrecked sailors and anyone who comes to the island (it was used by U.S. The Solarii Brotherhood worship Himiko, a queen who once ruled Yamatai. Himiko was known as the “Sun Queen,” and according to legend she was given powers that gave her control over the weather. In the video game, once Lara and her team make it to Yamatai, they discover that the island isn’t deserted but has been taken over by the Solarii Brotherhood, a violent cult made up of criminals, mercenaries, and shipwreck survivors. “Tomb Raider” The Solarii Brotherhood Aren’t Involved, and Himiko Isn’t the Sun Queen Lara does meet Mathias (Walton Goggins) on the island, but instead of being the leader of the Solarii Brotherhood, he is heading up the search for Himiko’s tomb under the instructions of Trinity. Lara doesn’t gather a team for the trip, but instead pairs up with a young fisherman, Lu Ren (Daniel Wu), whose father had taken Richard to Yamatai seven years prior, for her fated journey to the fabled island. She also admits she never went to university, and the research that eventually leads her to Yamatai is not her own, but her father’s work, which she uses to track him down. ![]() Although Lara didn’t know it at the time, Richard Croft (Dominic West) was having his own adventures under the guise of running the Croft family business, something Lara has never done herself. In the film, the audience is given multiple flashbacks which show a younger Lara, at various points in her childhood, seeing her father going off on trips.
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