The Tomb Raider collection that was first rumored greater than a 12 months in the past is now official: Sizzling on the heels of its hit Fallout present, Prime Video has formally unveiled plans for a brand new collection based mostly on the Tomb Raider video games.
The brand new collection will likely be written and produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, often known as the creator of the comedy collection Fleabag and the unique showrunner and head author of Killing Eve; she’s additionally an actor, showing in movies and tv exhibits together with Indiana Jones and the Dial of Future and Solo: A Star Wars story because the voice of L3-37.
As for who will observe within the footsteps of Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander to painting Lara Croft within the collection, that continues to be a thriller for now.
“With nice IP, the chances are countless,” Amazon Video games vp Christoph Hartmann mentioned. “The richness and depth of the fiction permits the Tomb Raider collection from Prime Video and the videogame from Amazon Video games to inform separate tales about Lara Croft’s adventures. We’re honored that Crystal Dynamics has entrusted Amazon with this iconic franchise, and we’re trying ahead to seeing the place this collaboration takes us.”
That’s definitely the type of factor you say in a low-info company press launch, and I do not suppose I might personally describe the Tomb Raider narrative as both wealthy or deep. However the success of the Fallout collection earns Amazon some advantage of the doubt on that entrance. Fallout is an inherently extra attention-grabbing setting, however the looser strictures of Tomb Raider, which is not fairly so tightly shackled to its sport world and the calls for that come up from that canon, ought to afford Waller-Bridge and firm extra room to be creatively versatile.
As for after we’ll learn the way that little bit of hypothesis holds up, there may be at the moment no indication: Amazon mentioned solely that it is going to be unique to Prime Video (no shock there) and that “we sit up for sharing extra about each tasks as they progress.” That “each tasks” reference is a reminder that Amazon Video games can also be publishing the following Tomb Raider sport, “a single-player, narrative-driven journey that may add a brand new chapter to Lara Croft’s story within the Tomb Raider collection.” There is not any phrase on when it is going to be out, both.
