- Amazon confirmed who will play Lara Croft in her tomb Raider Television show
- The live-action series will also start at the beginning of 2026
- The fans’ reaction to the first choice of Prime Video for his main character was mixed
Amazon MGM Studios revealed that Sophie Turner will represent Lara Croft in her next tomb Raider TV adaptation.
Turner, who will be immediately recognizable by fans of Thrones games And the second of 20th Century Fox X-Men The film franchise was announced publicly as the head of the program yesterday (September 3).
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In a press release accompanying the announcement on Tombraider.com, Amazon also confirmed that production would start on the first original video television in January 2026. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which has been attached to the project since January 2023, will serve as a series designer, producer, chief writer and co-showrunner. THE Scourge And Kill Eve The alum will be joined in the tasks of Chad Hodge co-showrunning, while Jonathan Van Tulleken is his main director.
“I am delighted beyond the measure to play Lara Croft,” Turner said in a statement. “He is such an emblematic character, which means so much for so many people – and I give everything I have. They are massive shoes to fill, following the steps of Angelina and Alicia with their central performance, but with Phoebe at the helm, we (and Lara) are all in very safe hands. I can’t wait for you to see all that we have cooked.”
In his own statement, Waller-Bridge said: “I am so excited to announce the formidable Sophie Turner that our Lara alongside this phenomenal creative team. It is not very often that you can demonstrate this scale with a character you have grown up. Everyone on board.
Why was the casting of Turner not universally received by the devotees of Tomb Raider
Even if Waller-Bridge, the leaders of Amazon and Turner herself are enthusiastic about the latter being ready to portray one of the most emblematic video game characters, there are some tomb Raider Fans who are not as enthusiastic.
As soon as the news has dropped, various wires, who have germinated on many reddit pages, were mainly filled with negative reactions to the Turner flow.
One of the most immediate concerns of fans is the fact that Turner is a natural redhead. Given Croft Sports Brown Hair, some have suggested that it was major surveillance from the show’s management team. But, hey, the wigs exist for a reason …
This observation is small fry compared to other criticisms that have been directed to Amazon for the hiring of Turner. Subjects on R / Television and R / Tombraider are full of people suggesting that Alicia Vikander, the most recent actor to play Croft in a live capacity, should have been the first choice of Prime Video. Meanwhile, others have suggested that Marvel Hayley Atwell’s star expresses Croft in the Netflix animated socket on the Action-Adventure Video Gaming franchise, is a better option.
Some comments were deliberately directed to Turner. Indeed, the reactions went from “such a strange casting” and being a “terrible choice”, to the fact that Turner is a “vacuum of charisma” and does not have “the atmosphere of bad ass you need to play Lara Croft”. In a thread on R / Entertainment, an unhappy user even went so far as to write cruelly: “It looks like he is trying to be so faithful to the original games. Because Turner has the range of actor of a polygonal video game character from the 1990s”. Ouch!
There are those who believe that Turner is well suited to Croft, some Redditors wishing him well in the role and / or indicating that they were cautiously optimistic about his casting. Others said they would refuse their verdict until a trailer, which was not likely to hit the web before the end of 2026 / early 2027, is published.
Overall, however, it seems that most fans are not satisfied with this announcement. We will see if they were right to be skeptical once Amazon tomb Raider The television show is finally here.
