The long-in-development Tomb Raider sequence from Phoebe Waller-Bridge is going through hassle at Prime Video. In 2023, it was introduced that Waller-Bridge, greatest generally known as the creator and star of the critically acclaimed sequence Fleabag, could be growing a brand new Tomb Raider sequence for Amazon’s manufacturing arm. The mission was formally greenlit in Could 2024, and by November 2024, stars like Sophie Turner (Recreation of Thrones), Lucy Boynton (Sing Avenue), Mackenzie Davis (Terminator: Darkish Destiny), and Emma Corin (Deadpool & Wolverine) had been all in consideration for the lead function of Lara Croft earlier than Turner was confirmed to have the half.
In line with a report by Puck, nevertheless, the Tomb Raider streaming sequence has majorly struggled behind the scenes. The article states that Amazon’s Prime Video has spent tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} growing the sequence and has nothing to point out. The sequence has already gone by means of two writers’ rooms and nonetheless doesn’t have a completed script. No phrase was given on Turner’s connection to the mission, although it appears the actress continues to be hooked up.
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Former head of Amazon MGM Studios Jennifer Salke had initially signed Waller-Bridge for a $20 million-a-year improvement deal in 2019, which, partially because of the results of the COVID-19 pandemic, partially as a result of inventive variations with Donald Glover on their unique iteration of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, failed to provide any tasks throughout the three-year window. Salke renewed Waller-Bridge’s deal in 2022 for one more three years, and personally oversaw Tomb Raider‘s improvement. Quick-forward to 2025, nevertheless, and nonetheless, Waller-Bridge has produced nothing and Tomb Raider continues to be nowhere near being off the bottom. And now the author has now misplaced her largest supporter, as Salke was fired from her place as head of Amazon MGM Studios and is now working beneath a producer take care of the studio.
Amazon MGM’s Struggles with ‘Tomb Raider’
Regardless of the recognition of the Tomb Raider online game sequence, the variation facet of the franchise has lengthy struggled. Whereas the Angelina Jolie-starring Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was a field workplace hit, the sequel, The Cradle of Life, was a field workplace bomb. And the 2018 reboot starring Alicia Vikander was a modest hit that obtained mediocre critiques from critics and audiences alike. Lovecraft Nation‘s Misha Inexperienced was set to helm a sequel to the 2018 Tomb Raider, titled Tomb Raider: Obsidian, with Vikander returning. However in July 2022, MGM Studios misplaced the rights to the Tomb Raider movie franchise, and the sequel was canceled. This was across the time Amazon bought MGM Studios and fashioned Amazon MGM, which resulted within the Tomb Raider movie rights going again to online game creator Sq. Enix in January 2023.
The unique plan was to attach a brand new Tomb Raider function movie to Waller-Bridge’s deliberate Tomb Raider sequence and make an interconnected cross-platform story, just like the MCU motion pictures and sequence on Disney+. However with all of the delays and manufacturing points that Tomb Raider has confronted in improvement, the query stays how lengthy Amazon MGM Studios will proceed to help Waller-Bridge’s plans for the franchise. Though Amazon MGM is now possible placing all of its concentrate on James Bond, Tomb Raider continues to be a priceless model that they possible do not need to sit on for too lengthy.
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Tomb Raider is a sequence of action-adventure motion pictures, centering across the adventures of the feminine fictional British archaeologist Lara Croft.