The Sport of Thrones and X-Males star is the face of the long-lasting online game character for the brand new Amazon Prime Video sequence.
Amazon has unveiled Sophie Turner’s look as the long-lasting Lara Croft. Yesterday, January 15, Amazon MGM Studios confirmed that manufacturing is underway for the brand new Prime Video sequence Tomb Raider.
It’s primarily based on the legendary online game sequence of the identical identify, which follows the adventures of world-famous archaeologist and adventurer Lara Croft. The franchise was launched in 1996 and has since spawned round 20 video games, with some nonetheless in manufacturing.
Exterior of the online game world, there have been comedian books, novels, theme park rides, and three movies primarily based on the video games. This contains 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which established Angelina Jolie as a number one woman, and the 2018 reboot with Swedish actress Alicia Vikander.
However it will likely be Sport of Thrones and X-Males star on the forefront of the brand new sequence, which is being led by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who created, wrote, and starred in award-winning comedy sequence Fleabag. Scottish actor Invoice Paterson, who performs Waller-Bridge’s father in Fleabag, joins the all-star forged for Tomb Raider.
Iconic Alien and Avatar actress Sigourney Weaver will even function within the sequence, in addition to Harry Potter star Jason Isaacs, Peep Present’s Paterson Joseph, Movie star Traitors favorite Celia Imrie, Martin Bobb-Semple, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Sasha Luss, Juliette Motamed, and August Wittgenstein.
Identical to with Fleabag, Waller-Bridge is taking up a number of key roles for Tomb Raider. She is serving as creator, author, govt producer and co-showrunner alongside Chad Hodge, who can also be govt producer.
Jonathan Van Tulleken can be director and govt producer on the sequence, with Crystal Dynamics, the developer behind the Tomb Raider video games from 2006-2015 and the upcoming titles this 12 months and subsequent 12 months, additionally on board as producers alongside Amazon MGM Studios and Story Kitchen.
Principal images started at Shepperton Studios in Surrey yesterday, although there was no proposed launch date but.
Turner, who reportedly beat Lucy Boynton to the function of Croft, shot to fame as Sansa Stark in Sport of Thrones again in 2011, with filming starting when she was simply 14.
Sansa was a key participant right through the sequence, surviving quite a lot of traumatic incidents as she grew from a shy woman right into a intelligent and highly effective lady.
She then starred because the younger Jean Grey within the X-Males sequence, across the identical time she began courting American singer Joe Jonas. In 2019, they have been married in Las Vegas, earlier than having two daughters born in 2020 and 2022.
Turner was the inspiration behind the Jonas Brothers track Hesitate, which was written as a love letter from Jonas. Regardless of this, the pair divorced in 2024.
Jonas filed for divorce in September 2023, and the pair confirmed it was a mutual resolution on their respective social media accounts. However Turner then sued her estranged husband to permit their daughters to return to the UK.
The lawsuit was dismissed quickly after and the pair have been in a position to attain a custody settlement in October that 12 months.
