Netflix today announced the animated series Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft will be returning for a second season. While the debut season, which premiered October 10, is a re-introduction and origin story for the famous video game adventurer, Season 2 will pick up further along her path to becoming a relic-hunting legend.
Showrunner Tasha Huo (The Witcher: Blood Origin, Red Sonja: The Legend Begins, The Mighty Nein) told Netflix fanblog TUDUM: “So Season 1, thematically, is about Lara embracing how her dad dealt with grief, which was isolating. When we meet Lara, she’s very isolated … As we get into Season 2, we’re trying to build Lara’s team over the course of the show, so she goes from isolated hero, who only wants to do things on her own — a lone wolf — to realizing, ‘Actually, I have this really cool team behind me.’ ”
Season 2 logline: When adventurer Lara Croft (voiced by Hayley Atwell) discovers a trail 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 globe as she delves deeper into the hidden secrets of Orisha history, dodges the machinations of a dangerous and enigmatic billionaire who wants the masks for herself, while discovering these relics contain dark secrets and a power that defies logic. Power that may, in fact, be divine.
From Legendary Television, Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is executive produced and written by Huo. Executive producers include dj2 Entertainment founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson (Sonic the Hedgehog, Life Is Strange), along with Timothy I. Stevenson; Jacob Robinson (Skull Island) under his company Tractor Pants; Dallas Dickinson and Noah Hughes for Crystal Dynamics; and Howard Bliss and Jen Chambers. Powerhouse Animation (Castlevania, Blood of Zeus) is the animation studio, with Brad Graeber serving as executive producer.