Pictures of Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft

Alicia Vikander looks well settled in her role as 'Lara Croft' in 'Tomb Raider' reboot. Images have surfaced online showing the stunning actress expertly carrying out a stunt. The images show Vikander suspended from a cable with her hands shackled together. The 'Daily Mail' is believed to have been the first source of the now widely shared pics.

Tomb Raider reboot is set for a release on 16 March 2018. It's following in the footsteps of Tomb Raider video game reboot which was released in 2013. The first Tomb Raider video game was published in 1996 by UK's Eidos gaming company.

The film's plot will be based off the 2013 reboot of the video game series

Coming back to Vikander's fresh pictures from the South African set, the 28-year-old looks every bit the Lara Croft character. Her brunette locks are tied back in a push-back braid as is characteristic of Lara and in addition to this, she has the I mean business attitude that the famous female protagonist has.

Judging from her perfectly executed stunts in the pics are to go by, Alicia appears to have brought her A game to the set of the reboot film. Hers wasn't any mere task as she was taking up a role once held by iconic actress Angelina Jolie. The Maleficent star played archeologist Lara Croft in the 2001 film 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' and 2003 film' Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life'.

Before Alicia Vikander was cast Daisy Ridley, Emilia Clarke, Saoirse Ronan, and Cara Delevingne were the frontrunners for Lara Croft

Although she has previously starred in other big films such as 'The Danish Girl' and 'Ex Machina', Tomb Raider is widely considered as Alicia's biggest film to date. It's one film in which she has the titular role and besides this, it belongs to a very well known and top performing franchise. 'The Tomb Raider' franchise has sold over 45 million copies of its video games across the world. Of these, Angelina Jolie's two films fetched $432 million globally. The 2013 reboot game on its part sold over 5 million copies globally.

Alicia's cast mates

Alicia is starring alongside Justified actor Walton Goggins who stars as the main villain. It is, in fact, speculated that it's Goggins whom Vikander is trying to flee from in the pictures. Also in the cast is 'The Wire's' Dominic West who stars as Croft's father and Daniel Wu playing captain Lu Ren.

Tomb Raider reboot is written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet who is best known for 'Transformers: The Last Knight' and directed by Roar Uthaug. The film will be distributed by MGM and Warner Bros.

Alicia shared backstage photos on her Instagram account

Film to take a different course

The upcoming film starring Alicia Vikander is not going to be like the one that starred Angelina Jolie. Vikander herself has told fans to expect something that is to an extent different from the original Tomb Raider. Indeed fans can only expect something different and even better. With an award-winning scriptwriter like Robertson and the combined efforts of MGM and Warner Bros in its production, the upcoming film is expected to be nothing short of epic.

In relation to taking up a role once played by Jolie, Vikander thinks the 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' actress did a perfect job in bringing out the character Lara Croft. She has also in the past expressed her admiration for the mother of six, she told E! News a while back that she would wish to meet her.

Alicia Vikander won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 'The Danish Girl' (2015)