{"id":112373,"date":"2025-09-03T20:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112373\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T20:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:47:07","slug":"sophie-turner-is-officially-lara-croft-in-amazon-tomb-raider-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/112373\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophie Turner Is Officially Lara Croft in Amazon \u2018Tomb Raider\u2019 Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPrime Video<\/a> is ready to send Lara Croft on her next adventure.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Amazon-owned streamer has confirmed that Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner<\/a> will play Lara Croft in its Tomb Raider<\/a> series from creator, writer and co-showrunner Phoebe Waller-Bridge<\/a>. As THR previously reported<\/a>, Turner emerged as the frontrunner for the coveted role late last year from a short list of actresses that also included Mackenzie Davis, Emma Mackey and Lucy Boynton. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe series has also brought on Chad Hodge (Good Behavior, Single All the Way) as co-showrunner alongside Waller-Bridge and set a Jan. 19 date for production to begin. Jonathan Van Tulleken (Dope Thief, Shogun) has also signed on as director and executive producer.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurner, whose recent credits include HBO Max\u2019s The Staircase and the ITV\/CW miniseries Joan, will be the third actress to play the iconic video game character in a live-action adaptation of Tomb Raider. Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander took on the role in previous feature films.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI\u2019m so excited to announce the formidable Sophie Turner as our Lara alongside this phenomenal creative team,\u201d Waller-Bridge said in a statement. \u201cIt\u2019s not very often you get to make a show of this scale with a character you grew up loving. Everyone on board is wildly passionate about Lara and are all as outrageous, brave, and hilarious as she is. Get your artifacts out \u2014 Croft is coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tSaid Turner, \u201cI am thrilled beyond measure to be playing Lara Croft. She\u2019s such an iconic character, who means so much to so many \u2014 and I am giving everything I\u2019ve got. They\u2019re massive shoes to fill, following in the steps of Angelina and Alicia with their powerhouse performances, but with Phoebe at the helm, we (and Lara) are all in very safe hands. I can\u2019t wait for you all to see what we have cooking.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tWaller-Bridge, an avowed fan of the video game franchise, began developing Tomb Raider<\/a> in early 2023, and Prime Video placed a series order<\/a> for the show in May 2024. Cyrstal Dynamics (which developed the Tomb Raider game franchise), Story Kitchen and Amazon MGM Studios are producing the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tWaller-Bridge executive produces via her Wells Street Productions. Hodge, Van Tulleken, Wells Street\u2019s Jenny Robins, Story Kitchen\u2019s Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson, Michael Scheel and Legendary Television also exec produce.<\/p>\n

\n\tTurner is repped by Independent Talent Group and Public Eye Communications; Waller-Bridge, by UTA, Independent Talent, McEwan & Penford and Johnson Shapiro; Hodge, by WME, Anonymous Content and Ziffren Brittenham; Van Tulleken, by WME, Untitled Entertainment and Independent Talent; and Story Kitchen, by WME and Pryor Cashman.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Video is ready to send Lara Croft on her next adventure. The Amazon-owned streamer has confirmed that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,30989,11523,3895,36936,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-112373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-phoebe-waller-bridge","11":"tag-prime-video","12":"tag-sophie-turner","13":"tag-tomb-raider","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}