Amazon’s Tomb Raider Exams Sport Of Thrones Star For Lara Croft

A live-action Tomb Raider TV present has been swirling round at Amazon for a few years now, and it sounds just like the collection could be honing in on its future Lara Croft. Deadline experiences that Sport of Thrones’ Sophie Turner in addition to Homicide on the Orient Categorical’ Lucy Boynton are presently within the operating for the long-lasting online game position.

The present’s script was written by Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge and ordered by Amazon earlier this 12 months. Turner and Boynton at the moment are set to do display exams for Lara Croft, although it’s potential others may very well be within the combine as effectively. Deadline experiences that Emma Corrin (The Crown) and Mackenzie Davis (Halt and Catch Hearth) are additionally on a “wishlist” of potential recruits for the gun-wielding researcher.

Following her breakout position on Sport of Thrones as Sansa Stark, Turner picked up a number of film roles together with, most notably ,Jean Gray in each X-Males: Apocalypse and Darkish Phoenix. She’s presently starring within the British crime drama collection Joan. Boynton, in the meantime, has appeared in Bohemian Rhapsody, The Pale Blue Eye, and Barbie, whereas additionally enjoying Astrid Sloan within the comedy drama The Politician.

One of many longest-running collection in gaming, Tomb Raider has already had a variety of on-screen diversifications. There have been two films within the early 2000s starring Angelina Jolie and a reboot in 2018 starring Alicia Vikander because the titular hero. The film made a good quantity on the field workplace however didn’t result in any direct sequels.

Tomb Raider has additionally lately been leveraged right into a less-than-stellar animated collection on Netflix. The video games are additionally going full steam forward with remastered trilogies of the unique six video games in addition to ongoing work on a blockbuster sequel at Crystal Dynamics. That entry doesn’t but have a launch date, although Amazon has already confirmed there received’t be any story overlap with its upcoming adaptation.