Amazon’s live-action Tomb Raider TV sequence may need discovered its Lara Croft. Following reviews final month that Sophie Turner was within the operating to play the long-lasting character, it is now being claimed the Sport of Thrones’ actor has reached the negotiating stage.
A live-action Tomb Raider sequence (to not be confused with Netflix’s animated adaptation) was first reported again in January 2023, with Fleabag and Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge connected as author. It wasn’t till Might this 12 months, nonetheless, that Amazon made the sequence official, confirming Waller-Bridge’s involvement and never a lot else.
Since then, curious minds have began pondering the apparent query: who may Amazon forged as Lara Croft following Angelina Jolie’s memorable live-action flip because the jet-setting archaeologist within the early 2000s and, later, Alicia Vikander’s extra grounded strategy to the function. Then, final month, it looks as if a solution may very well be close to, with Deadline reporting Sophie Turner (maybe greatest generally known as Sport Of Thrones’s Sansa Stark) and Lucy Boynton (Mary Austin in Bohemian Rhapsody) had been each poised to check for the half.
And it appears to be like like Turner could have clinched it; Deadline has adopted its earlier story with claims the actor is now “in negotiations to star as Lara Croft”. So assuming all goes effectively, Turner might quickly be becoming a member of the elite membership of actors who’ve performed the long-lasting function both on or off digital camera.
The Tomb Raider TV sequence – which Amazon has beforehand known as “epic” and “globe-trotting” – does not have something near a launch date but, but it surely’ll air on Prime Video when it will definitely exhibits up. Along with the sequence, Amazon can be set to publish Crystal Dynamics’ subsequent Tomb Raider recreation and is even planning a brand new film instalment. And if that is nonetheless not sufficient Lara for you, Apsyr is releasing Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered subsequent 12 months.
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