According to the Hollywood Reporter, Amazon has chosen Phoebe Waller-Bridge to produce a TV show based on the Tomb Raider video game series.
Waller-Bridge, widely known for her role in the Emmy-winning comedy Fleabag on Prime Video, will produce and write the Tomb Raider adaptation but she won’t be starring in it. Together with Amanda Greenblatt and Ryan Andolina, the former Head of Comedy at Amazon Studios, Waller-Bridge will work on the project.
According to Deadline, Amazon is also working on a new Tomb Raider movie. In the Paramount Pictures films Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2001 and Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life from 2003, Angelina Jolie played Lara Croft.
After MGM gave producer Graham King and his GK Films the rights to Tomb Raider, a bidding battle broke out to get them back in July. Alicia Vikander, who played Lara Croft in the 2018 film Tomb Raider, is no longer associated with the project as a result. Since 2019, a follow-up to the 2018 movie has been in the works, with Vikander returning as Lara Craft. Misha Green of Lovecraft Country and Ben Wheatley were both considered to be candidates to direct the potential sequel.