As Alicia Vikander told Total Film Magazine, this movie will be an origin story featuring a younger Lara Croft, so this film has the opportunity to show a very different character than the one inhabited by Angelina Jolie.
Angelina Jolie’s Lara Croft was already fully formed as a worldly and confident individual when we met her.
By taking Lara back to the beginning, Alicia Vikander can show a Lara that, though smart and independent, is lacking in direction or purpose.
You don’t become the woman Angelina Jolie portrayed without many life experiences to get you to that point.