{"id":355329,"date":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355329\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T11:06:08","slug":"tomb-raider-tv-series-casts-jason-isaacs-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/355329\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tomb Raider&#8217; TV Series Casts Jason Isaacs (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tEXCLUSIVE: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jason-isaacs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jason-isaacs\" data-tag=\"jason-isaacs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Isaacs<\/a> (The White Lotus) is the latest addition to the cast of Amazon MGM\u2019s live-action <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tomb-raider\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tomb-raider\" data-tag=\"tomb-raider\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tomb Raider<\/a> series, sources tell Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReps for Amazon declined to comment and it\u2019s not yet clear who Isaacs is playing. As previously announced, Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner is set for the lead role of Lara Croft, with Sigourney Weaver also eyeing to star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBased on the video game franchise, following the adventures of world-famous archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft (Turner), the Tomb Raider TV series\u2019 plot is being kept under wraps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tCreated, written and exec produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the project has been gestating for some time after first being announced in 2022. It was officially greenlighted in May 2024, with Turner coming aboard to star six months later, and finally begins production on January 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChad Hodge is co-showrunning, as well as exec producing alongside Jonathan Van Tulleken (Sh\u014dgun, Dope Thief), who is also directing. The show is also executive produced by Crystal Dynamics; Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins through Wells Street Productions; Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson through Story Kitchen; Michael Scheel; Hodge; and Legendary Television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tComing off his first Emmy nomination and second Golden Globe nomination for his work in the third season of HBO\u2019s The White Lotus, Isaacs has a packed slate up ahead with projects like the hostage thriller Eleven Days, Bleecker Street\u2019s Victorian Psycho with Maika Monroe, and The Julia Set, a coming-of-age drama we were first to report on that co-stars Chase Infiniti, Christopher Briney, and Gillian Anderson. He is repped by Gersh, Independent Talent Group, and Strand Entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Jason Isaacs (The White Lotus) is the latest addition to the cast of Amazon MGM\u2019s live-action Tomb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[338,49,48,75,129026,1912,1355,65530],"class_list":["post-355329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amazon-mgm-studios","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jason-isaacs","tag-prime-video","tag-the-dish","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}