Amazon MGM Studios has welcomed the addition of an iconic actress, who will likely be starring alongside Sport of Thrones vet Sophie Turner in Prime Video’s Tomb Raider sequence. Manufacturing is predicted to start on January 19, 2026.
What will we learn about Sigourney Weaver’s Tomb Raider position?
In keeping with Deadline, Alien and Avatar alum Sigourney Weaver has entered negotiations to hitch the solid of the live-action Tomb Raider sequence. It hails from creator, author, and govt producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge, who has been connected to the challenge for over two years now. The present may even be executive-produced by co-showrunner Chad Hodge and director Jonathan Van Tulleken. In addition to Turner, Martin Bobb-Semple (Pandora) has additionally beforehand been tapped to hitch the present as a sequence common.
Additional particulars about its plot and characters are nonetheless being stored underneath wraps, however it was initially described as an epic globe-trotting journey. This marks the most recent live-action adaptation of Crystal Dynamics’ hit online game sequence, following Angelina Jolie’s standard Lara Croft: Tomb Raider films, and Alicia Vikander’s 2018 remake. As a part of her total take care of Amazon MGM Studios, Waller-Bridge had signed on to function the challenge’s author and govt producer.
“If I might inform my teenage self this was taking place, I believe she’d explode,” Waller-Bridge stated in a earlier assertion when the sequence was formally introduced. “Tomb Raider has been an enormous a part of my life, and I really feel extremely privileged to be bringing it to tv with such passionate collaborators. Lara Croft means rather a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this journey. Bats ‘n all.”
(Supply: Deadline)
Initially reported by Maggie Dela Paz at SuperHeroHype.
