Roar Uthaug, the Norwegian filmmaker who balanced intimate character work with enormous action set pieces in the Scandinavian films “The Wave” and “Escape” now directs “Tomb Raider,” the story that will set a young and resolute Lara Croft on a path toward becoming a global hero.
“This is a more down-to-earth Lara Croft than we’ve seen before on film, which appealed to me,” he says. Get a load of the director’s thoughts about “Tomb Raider” in the following interview.