Amazon isn’t simply publishing the subsequent massive Tomb Raider online game. Right this moment, the large firm confirmed the beforehand reported information that it is usually making a live-action TV present based mostly on the Tomb Raider video games, and has tapped Phoebe Waller-Bridge to jot down it up.
In January 2023, The Hollywood Reporter claimed to have realized {that a} Tomb Raider live-action present was being deliberate by Amazon. It was additionally reported that that present can be written by Fleabag creator and star Waller-Bridge. Seems, that report was fully correct.
On Could 14, Amazon introduced that it had picked up and ordered a full season of a brand new, upcoming Tomb Raider tv present based mostly on the hit video games starring Lara Croft. The information was revealed throughout Amazon’s Upfront occasion in New York Metropolis on Tuesday. Amazon & MGM Studios head Jen Salke known as it an “epic” collection that may span the whole globe. Which is smart. It could be bizarre if she stated it was a boring present set completely in like…Kansas or one thing.
“If I might inform my teenage self this was occurring I feel she’d explode,” stated Waller-Bridge as reported by Deadline.
“Tomb Raider has been an enormous a part of my life and I really feel extremely privileged to be bringing it to tv with such passionate collaborators. Lara Croft means lots to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this journey. Bats ‘n all.”
No launch date or window was given for the collection. Amazon additionally didn’t reveal any story particulars or casting decisions for the present.
This is only one of some Tomb Raider initiatives within the works in the intervening time. Netflix is engaged on an animated Tomb Raider collection, due out someday later this yr.
Amazon can also be reportedly engaged on a film that may tie into Waller-Bridge’s just-officially-announced collection. It’s additionally reported that the upcoming Amazon-published Tomb Raider recreation—being made by longtime collection developer Crystal Dynamics—will tie into the film and present, too. The plan appears to be to create some sort of MCU-like universe.
After the success of Fallout on Amazon and The Final of Us on HBO, it appears cheap that the corporate, and different streamers, would proceed doubling down on online game variations. Nonetheless, I’m unsure I would like a film, a present, a cartoon and a brand new recreation all based mostly on Tomb Raider in a brief span of time, however we’ll see the way it all comes collectively over the subsequent few years.
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