Amazon Has Discovered Its Lara Croft in Recreation of Thrones’ Sophie Turner

Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s long-awaited Tomb Raider series at Amazon Prime Video simply took an enormous leap ahead with an important piece of the puzzle: casting Sophie Turner (Recreation of Thrones) as Lara Croft.

Variety reviews that Turner “is sort of set” to star within the present, the primary results of Amazon’s big-bucks take care of Waller-Bridge—final seen starring in a distinct tomb-raiding milieu because of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future, however whose skills behind the digicam are additionally well-established in tasks like Fleabag and Killing Eve. The previous Sansa Stark can be the most recent to play the titular Tomb Raider character, who rose to pop-culture prominence because of her blockbuster online game franchise, however has additionally hit the massive display screen with Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander providing takes on the adventurer.

The commerce doesn’t give any extra particulars, however we did be taught in late October (through Deadline) that the casting had been narrowed down to 2 potential Laras: Turner and Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody). Presumably as soon as Turner locks in her deal, we’ll be taught extra about who else will seem within the sequence—and once we’ll get to see it.

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