Amazon Has Found Its Lara Croft in Game of Thrones‘ Sophie Turner

Phoebe Waller-Bridge‘s long-awaited Tomb Raider series astatine Amazon Prime Video conscionable took a large leap guardant with a important portion of the puzzle: casting Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) arsenic Lara Croft.

Variety reports that Turner “is astir set” to prima successful the show, the archetypal effect of Amazon’s big-bucks woody with Waller-Bridge—last seen starring successful a antithetic tomb-raiding milieu acknowledgment to Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, but whose talents down the camera are besides well-established successful projects similar Fleabag and Killing Eve. The erstwhile Sansa Stark would beryllium the latest to play the titular Tomb Raider character, who roseate to pop-culture prominence acknowledgment to her blockbuster video crippled franchise, but has besides deed the large surface with Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander offering takes connected the adventurer.

The commercialized doesn’t springiness immoderate much details, but we did larn successful precocious October (via Deadline) that the casting had been narrowed down to 2 imaginable Laras: Turner and Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody). Presumably erstwhile Turner locks successful her deal, we’ll larn much astir who other volition look successful the series—and erstwhile we’ll get to spot it.

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