A new film adaptation of Tomb Raider is in the works from an acclaimed Norwegian director.

Director Roar Uthaug possesses not only a stupendous, Warcraft-sounding name, but an impressive CV that includes psychological horror Cold Prey and this year's highest-grossing Norwegian film (and Academy Award submission), disaster spectacle The Wave.*

Tomb Raider will be Uthaug's English-language debut.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will "follow Lara Croft's first adventure," and likely be written by Geneva Robertson-Dworet, writer of the Blacklist script Hibernation and co-writer of the next Transformers movie.

It will be Lara Croft's first theatrical outing since 2003's Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, which impressed neither critics nor audiences.

However, the recent success of the rebooted Tomb Raider game franchise has evidently renewed interest enough to warrant another film.

* Author's note: I've seen The Wave. I really, really liked it.