Amazon’s highly-anticipated live-action Tomb Raider TV present is reportedly “useless.”
As noticed by Eurogamer, the Daily Mail at the moment stories that the present has “hit the buffers,” with Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner — who was tipped to play the titular character — tied up with different tasks for many of 2025.
The Mail mentioned the mission — which might have been based mostly on the long-running Tomb Raider online game franchise — might have been impacted when head of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, who greenlit the present, was “booted” from her place final week.
However, Puck stories Salke supplied “a brutal replace” earlier than she left Amazon, intimating Waller-Bridge had allegedly not produced a script regardless of the $20 million-a-year deal she signed in 2019. Nonetheless, the deal was renewed, with Puck reporting that Salke was “personally overseeing after asserting a collection pickup final May,” and the collection “has now gone via two writers rooms and tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in growth prices. There’s nonetheless no script.”
Amazon formally introduced its Tomb Raider live-action collection for Prime Video in January 2023, revealing Fleabag star Phoebe Waller-Bridge was in place as author and govt producer. At the time, it was thought Amazon additionally had plans to make a brand new Tomb Raider film and no less than one further online game, hoping to make an MCU-like interconnected universe.
Though best-known for Fleabag, Waller-Bridge is not any stranger to the action-adventure style after scripting the James Bond movie No Time to Die and starring in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
It all went quiet, nonetheless, till stories that Waller-Bridge hoped to create one thing “harmful and thrilling” bubbled up final May as she opened up about her love of Lara rising up. “My dad and mom have been very sensible as a result of they did not truly restrict me,” she recalled. “They might sense that I used to be going to only recreation myself into the bottom, and I did. I packed the PlayStation away, and I used to be like, ‘I’ve bought to not do this as a result of I’ve bought to put in writing and browse and do different stuff.’ “
Amazon and Waller-Bridge have declined to touch upon the rumors.
Vikki Blake is a reporter, critic, columnist, and advisor. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her at BlueSky.
