First Look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in Amazon's Tomb Raider TV Series

Amazon has revealed a archetypal look astatine Sophie Turner arsenic Lara Croft successful the caller Prime Video Tomb Raider series.

The image, below, was released to coincide with the commencement of production. Turner, celebrated for playing Sansa Stark successful Game of Thrones, plays a caller instrumentality connected Lara Croft, though with galore of the features fans of the satellite celebrated archaeologist and adventurer arsenic she appears successful the archetypal Tomb Raider games volition cognize well.

Prime Video debuts Sophie Turner arsenic Lara Croft successful caller bid Tomb Raider. Credit: Jay Maidment for Prime Video.

The bid stars Turner arsenic Lara Croft, alongside precocious announced formed Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Martin Bobb-Semple, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Bill Paterson, Paterson Joseph, Sasha Luss, Juliette Motamed, Celia Imrie, and August Wittgenstein. Weaver volition play Evelyn Wallis, a caller quality not featured successful the archetypal games who is described by Amazon arsenic a “mysterious, high-flying pistillate who is keen to exploit Lara's talents.”

Unlike Weaver, Isaacs volition play a quality who is canon to the franchise: Croft’s uncle, Atlas DeMornay. Two different canon roles person been cast: Bill Paterson (Lord Lyman Beesbury successful House of the Dragon) volition play Winston, the Croft family’s longtime butler, portion Martin Bobb-Semple takes connected the relation of Zip, Croft’s right-hand tech enactment and adjacent friend.

Additionally, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Celia Imrie, Patterson Joseph, Sasha Luss, August Wittgenstein, and Juliette Motamed person joined the formed successful assorted roles that person been created specifically for the series, which volition “reinvent the franchise connected a monolithic scale” and volition interconnect “live-action tv bid and video games into a unified storytelling universe.”

Tomb Raider cast:

The pursuing formed are confirmed successful canon roles from the Tomb Raider video crippled franchise:

• Martin Bobb-Semple is Zip. Zip is Lara Croft’s long-standing tech enactment and friend.
• Jason Isaacs is Atlas DeMornay. Atlas is Lara’s uncle.
• Bill Paterson is Winston. Winston is the long-standing Croft household butler.

The pursuing formed are confirmed for roles to the Tomb Raider universe:

• Jack Bannon is Gerry. Gerry is Lara’s idiosyncratic aviator and snack collector.
• John Heffernan is David. David is an exhausted authorities authoritative who finds himself tangled up successful Lara's antithetic world.
• Celia Imrie is Francine. Francine is the Head of Advancement astatine the British Museum, focused solely connected raising funds and glasses of champagne.
• Paterson Joseph is Thomas Warner. Thomas Warner is simply a elder authorities authoritative brought successful to cleanable up an almighty mess.
• Sasha Luss is Sasha. Sasha is simply a fierce, profoundly competitory caller adversary of Lara’s.
• Juliette Motamed is Georgia. Georgia is simply a devoted, by-the-books curator astatine the British Museum, dedicated to the ‘proper’ preservation of history.
• Sigourney Weaver is Evelyn Wallis. A mysterious, high-flying pistillate who is keen to exploit Lara's talents.
• August Wittgenstein is Lukas. Lukas is an amerciable raider who shares past with Lara successful much ways than one.

The bid is led by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) serving arsenic creator, writer, enforcement shaper and co-showrunner alongside Chad Hodge arsenic co-showrunner and enforcement producer. Jonathan Van Tulleken serves arsenic manager and enforcement producer. The bid is produced by Story Kitchen, Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, and Amazon MGM Studios.

We’re inactive nary person to knowing erstwhile Tomb Raider volition release, but we did get confirmation of 2 caller Tomb Raider video games astatine past month's The Game Awards. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, a reimagining of the archetypal crippled successful the series, is owed retired astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026 connected PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam. And the marque caller crippled Tomb Raider: Catalyst is owed retired astatine immoderate constituent successful 2027. Alix Wilton Regan volition present play Lara Croft successful some games, replacing Camilla Luddington, who portrayed Lara Croft successful the Survivor Trilogy.

Credit: Jay Maidment for Prime Video.

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