Lara Croft was always meant to be a female counterpart to Indiana Jones, but it would seem that the film might be using Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade as something of a template.
Now, we have the first hint of information via HeyUGuys, as far as what the story will actually be dealing with.
Traditionally Lara Croft’s father is also a historian and amateur adventurer, she sort of gets it from him, so if we’re staying with that idea, it would appear that he goes missing while on a quest of some kind and Lara goes after him.
However, we didn’t know exactly how that would translate into a feature film.