TOMB RAIDER Series From Phoebe Waller-Bridge Moving Forward at Amazon MGM Studios
Over a year ago it was announced that Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny) was developing a live-action adaptation of the hit video game franchise Tomb Raider for Amazon Studios.
Well, the series is officially moving forward as the streamer has given the project a series order. The news came from the head of Amazon & MGM Studios Jen Salke at the company’s Upfront event in New York.
She called the project an “epic” and “globe-trotting” series, and added: “If I could tell my teenage self this was happening I think she’d explode.”
Salke continued: “Tomb Raider has been a huge part of my life and I feel incredibly privileged to be bringing it to television with such passionate collaborators.
She went on to say: “Lara Croft means a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this adventure. Bats ‘n all.”
Fleabag creator and star Waller-Bridge is writing and producing the Tomb Raider series, but as of right now no one has been cast.
When previously teasing the project, Waller-Bride said: "There's so much I can incorporate. I mean, the character of Lara Croft was inspired by Indiana Jones and James Bond.
“So there's so much, and it just felt like the perfect final step in my own personal adventure through this kind of franchise world. I love the idea of, as Steven Spielberg describes it, the greatest show on Earth, as in being able to make things with that scale and to go on adventures that big and for the comedy and the heart to be matched but on this kind of great, great level.
“And, actually, through all the adventure stuff that I've learned from those [franchises], it's actually how to keep something feeling grounded as well as allow it to be bigger than itself in some way. And so hopefully that will all translate perfectly, seamlessly into Tomb Raider."
Within this resurgence of the Tomb Raider franchise, Amazon Studios will also be developing a new movie and video games.