Deadline is reporting that Hannah John-Kamen has joined the cast of MGM & Warner Bros.' upcoming film adaptation of the popular video game series Tomb Raider. She'll portray the best friend and flatmate of Lara Croft, who is played by Academy Award-winner Alicia Vikander.
A name for her character wasn't given, but it could be theorized that her character may be loosely based on Samantha Nishimura, who was Lara's best friend in the 2013 hit action/adventure game. It is already on record that the upcoming Roar Uthaug-directed film will draw some inspiration from the most recent Crystal Dynamics series, especially with Lara Croft's characterization, but it's still unknown whether this will translate to the film's supporting players as many have been confirmed as original characters.
In addition to Vikander, John-Kamen joins a cast that features Walton Goggins (Vice Principals) as the main villain, Daniel Wu (Into the Badlands), and Dominic West (The Wire).
John-Kamen is best known for her lead role on the Syfy series Killjoys where she plays an interplanetary bounty hunter. She also most recently appeared in two episodes of HBO's hit fantasy drama Game of Thrones as Ornela, a Dothraki widow that befriended Daenerys during her brief stay with the Dosh khaleen. Her other credits include Black Mirror and she had a small role as a First Order officer in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. She also recently wrapped filming a major role in Steven Spielberg's highly anticipated Ready Player One, which opens two weeks after Tomb Raider.
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Lara Croft is the fiercely independent daughter of an eccentric adventurer who vanished when she was scarcely a teen. Now a young woman of 21 without any real focus or purpose, Lara navigates the chaotic streets of trendy East London as a bike courier, barely making the rent, and takes college courses, rarely making it to class. Determined to forge her own path, she refuses to take the reins of her father’s global empire just as staunchly as she rejects the idea that he’s truly gone.
Advised to face the facts and move forward after seven years without him, even Lara can’t understand what drives her to finally solve the puzzle of his mysterious death.Going explicitly against his final wishes, she leaves everything she knows behind in search of her dad’s last-known destination: a fabled tomb on a mythical island that might be somewhere off the coast of Japan. But her mission will not be an easy one; just reaching the island will be extremely treacherous. Suddenly, the stakes couldn’t be higher for Lara, who—against the odds and armed with only her sharp mind, blind faith and inherently stubborn spirit—must learn to push herself beyond her limits as she journeys into the unknown. If she survives this perilous adventure, it could be the making of her, earning her the name tomb raider.
Tomb Raider features:
Director: Roar Uthaug
Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft
Walton Goggins as Father Mathias Vogel
Daniel Wu as Lu Ren
Dominic West as Lord Richard Croft
Hannah John-Kamen in an undisclosed role
Tomb Raider rappels into theaters March 16, 2018