Tomb Raider trailer features re-worked Destiny's Child track

The second trailer (and subsequent TV spots) for 2018's Tomb Raider arrived today with a noticeable licensed trailer song - watch the trailer after the jump below. Director Roar Uthaug was quick to highlight the accompanying music used:

For those wondering about the @destinyschild remix for the @TombRaiderMovie trailer, it was done by @2WEIMUSIC and you can find the full song here:https://t.co/ZiWbPqklbK

— Roar Uthaug (@roaruthaug) 21 January 2018

As Uthaug points out, the music is the early-naughties Destiny's Child empowerment pop hit "Survivor" as reworked by 2WEI Music. What's better news is that the track is available to purchase from all good music retailers. Unusually so for a trailer music outfit - 2WEI being a music maker for trailers and commercials.

Tomb Raider is the third film in the Tomb Raider franchise and the first based on the reboot-era of video games developed by Crystal Dynamics. Tomb Raider stars Alicia Vikander in the pop-culturally relevant role of Lara Croft and hits cinemas on March 16th, 2018.

The Tomb Raider Suite album lands May 1st, 2018, website live; Tomb Raider Suite world tour to start in North America 2018 & Tomb Raider Remastered documentary in development

The Tomb Raider Suite website is now live! With the launch by composer Nathan McCree and his team, there comes a flurry of announcements to digest about the unprecedented Tomb Raider music project:

• The Tomb Raider Suite album launches on May 1st, 2018 - if you missed out on the 121%-funded Kickstarter campaign, you can now pre-order the album and many other goodies via the Tomb Raider Suite shop
• Due to the success of Tomb Raider Live In Concert, The Tomb Raider Suite will now be going on a world tour starting this year in North America (dates to be added as venues confirmed)
• Album producer David Burns is sill developing a television documentary about the making of The Tomb Raider Suite entitled Tomb Raider Remastered

The community-funded project is expanding admirably in its success which is incredibly exciting news for all classic Tomb Raider fans. The soundtracks to Tomb Raider (1996), Tomb Raider II: The Dagger of Xian (1997) & Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (1998) will be commercialised for the very first time in over 20 years of the Tomb Raider franchise. The Tomb Raider Suite is determined to embody the nostalgic video game music with full orchestration and subsequently not be limited by the software of the era.

Read the full statement from Nathan McCree after the jump:

Tom Holkenborg records score to Tomb Raider (2018)

Director Roar Uthaug has shared a social media moment with Tom Holkenborg aka Junkie XL, composer for the new year's upcoming Tomb Raider, from the recording studio handling production on the film's soundtrack which is presumed to have wrapped in time for its March 16th release date.

Fantastic day recording the score for tombraidermovie with the amazing @junkie_xl #tombraider @… https://t.co/y6uGYxmnIr

— Roar Uthaug (@roaruthaug) 6 January 2018

Holkenborg will be the third film composer for the Tomb Raider franchise on the silver screen, following Graeme Revell and Alan Silvestri's work on Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) & Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003) respectively. It remains unclear if the composer will borrow Nathan McCree's original 1996 video game motif (as did Silvestri), Jason Graves' rebooted motif (from the 2013 video game of the same name and which the film is heavily inspired by), or has written a completely original score.

Tomb Raider debuts worldwide on March 16th, 2018, and stars Alicia Vikander as the iconic Lara Croft.