Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was the highest-grossing film on its opening weekend. A sequel, titled "", was released in 2003. In pursuit of a diamond, Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) battles a large robot in an Egyptian tomb; she disables it by ripping out its circuits. The diamond, revealed to be a memory card, is inserted into a laptop computer inside the robot to play music. The fight took place in a practice area of Lara's home and the robot was programmed by her technical assistant Bryce (Noah Taylor) to challenge her in combat. The first phase of a planetary alignment, culminating in a solar
Tomb Raider (comics) Dark Horse Comics began publishing a new series of comics, set between the 2013 reboot and its sequel, Gail Simone wrote the first six issues, before collaborating with Rhianna Pratchett for the next arc, before Pratchett took over for the rest of the series. In 2016, another series started to bridge the gap between "Rise of the Tomb Raider" and the next game in the series, "Shadow of the Tomb Raider". Lara Croft's appearances have been collected into a number of trade paperbacks. Her own comic series was originally named Tomb Raider: Starring Lara Croft as the Tomb Raider (#1-24),