Today, a report announced that actress Sophie Turner is set to star as Lara Croft in Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider live-action TV series. This upcoming series will be a reboot of the 2018 film starring Alicia Vikander, which was a reboot of Angelina Jolie’s films. Netflix also recently released an anime based on the popular video game this year starring Hayley Atwell.
Head writer and producer Phoebe Waller-Bridge has long developed this upcoming series. Turner is best known for her role as Sansa Stark in the original Game of Thrones series and Jean Grey in the recent X-Men films. She beat out fellow actresses Mackenzie Davis (Station Eleven), Emma Mackey (Sex Education), and Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody) for the role.
Tomb Raider has no set release date
Source: The Hollywood Reporter