Tomb Raider Amazon TV Show Will 'Reinvent the Franchise on a Massive Scale'

It looks arsenic though the live-action Tomb Raider Amazon series, which volition prima Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, volition revamp the beloved video crippled franchise, truthful get acceptable for an all-new Lara Croft.

Story Kitchen, a accumulation institution dedicated to video crippled adaptations successful film, precocious revealed immoderate caller details astir their concern with Amazon MGM studios, who is distributing the series, and Crystal Dynamics, the institution that created the iconic crippled series. According to their website, the caller Tomb Raider bid volition “reinvent the franchise connected a monolithic scale” and volition interconnect “live-action tv bid and video games into a unified storytelling universe.”

For Amazon, Fleabag prima and writer Phoebe Waller-Bridge volition beryllium taking the helm here, “spearheading the adjacent section of Tomb Raider, launching an ambitious reimagining of the Lara Croft universe.”

Jonathan Van Tulleken, who is known for his enactment connected the highly regarded FX bid Shogun, volition nonstop and service arsenic enforcement shaper connected the bid alongside Chad Hodge, who volition besides service arsenic co-showrunner with Waller-Bridge.

The bid was archetypal reported to beryllium successful improvement successful January 2023 and was officially greenlit astatine Prime Video implicit a twelvemonth aboriginal successful May 2024. In November 2024, Turner was archetypal connected to the project, and she was confirmed to prima astir implicit a twelvemonth later, conscionable a fewer months ago.

“I’m truthful excited to denote the formidable Sophie Turner arsenic our Lara alongside this phenomenal originative team,” Waller-Bridge said astatine the time. “It’s not precise often you get to marque a amusement of this standard with a quality you grew up loving. Everyone connected committee is wildly passionate astir Lara and are each arsenic outrageous, brave, and hilarious arsenic she is. Get your artifacts out… Croft is coming…”

In aboriginal September, it was reported that the amusement would statesman filming successful January 2026, truthful we don’t person immoderate merchandise accusation conscionable yet — but for fans of the franchise, it’s worthy noting that the last play of the animated bid Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft volition beryllium released connected December 11.

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Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.