After The last of us EITHER fallplace Tomb Raider: Amazon announced on Tuesday that it had ordered a series based on the video game franchise that follows the adventures of adventurer Lara Croft.
Amazon, which produces the series alongside Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, said the series will stream exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries. No air date or name of the actress who will play Lara Croft has been announced.
The British Phoebe Waller-Bridge, revealed with her successful series flea bag and co-star of the latest Indiana Jones (Indiana Jones and Doom’s Clock2023) will be the screenwriter and executive producer.
After Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander
“If I could have told my teenage self that this was happening, I think he would have exploded,” the 38-year-old actress and screenwriter said, quoted in a press release on the Tomb Raider website.
“Tomb Raider has played an important role in my life and I feel incredibly privileged to be able to bring it to television with such passionate collaborators. Lara Croft means a lot to me, as it does to so many others, and I can’t wait to continue it.” the adventure. Bats and all that included,” he continued.
The seventh art has taken up the figure of Lara Croft on several occasions. First in 2001 with the American star Angelina Jolie, then, in 2018, with the film tom raider worn by the Swedish Alicia Vikander.
Adaptations of games to movies and series are not new, but so far their quality leaves much to be desired, from the movie Super Mario Bros. from 1993 to the series resident Evil released on Netflix in 2022.
The latest, the series. fall, an adaptation of a saga well known to gamers, premiered at the beginning of April on Amazon. It is signed by Jonathan Nolan, brother of the filmmaker Christopher.
Source: BFM TV
