Amazon's Live-Action Tomb Raider Show From Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridges Could Be 'Dead'

Amazon's highly-anticipated live-action Tomb Raider TV amusement is reportedly "dead."

As spotted by Eurogamer, the Daily Mail contiguous reports that the amusement has "hit the buffers," with Game of Thrones prima Sophie Turner — who was tipped to play the titular quality — tied up with different projects for astir of 2025.

The Mail said the task — which would person been based connected the long-running Tomb Raider video crippled franchise — whitethorn person been impacted erstwhile caput of Amazon Studios Jennifer Salke, who greenlit the show, was "booted" from her presumption past week.

However, Puck reports Salke provided "a brutal update" earlier she near Amazon, intimating Waller-Bridge had allegedly not produced a publication contempt the $20 million-a-year woody she signed successful 2019. Nonetheless, the woody was renewed, with Puck reporting that Salke was "personally overseeing aft announcing a bid pickup past May," and the bid "has present gone done 2 writers rooms and tens of millions of dollars successful improvement costs. There’s inactive nary script."

Amazon formally announced its Tomb Raider live-action bid for Prime Video successful January 2023, revealing Fleabag prima Phoebe Waller-Bridge was successful spot arsenic writer and enforcement producer. At the time, it was thought Amazon besides had plans to marque a caller Tomb Raider movie and astatine slightest 1 further video game, hoping to marque an MCU-like interconnected universe.

Though best-known for Fleabag, Waller-Bridge is nary alien to the action-adventure genre aft scripting the James Bond movie No Time to Die and starring successful Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

It each went quiet, however, until reports that Waller-Bridge hoped to make thing "dangerous and exciting" bubbled up past May arsenic she opened up astir her emotion of Lara increasing up. "My parents were precise astute due to the fact that they didn't really bounds me," she recalled. "They could consciousness that I was going to conscionable crippled myself into the ground, and I did. I packed the PlayStation away, and I was like, 'I've got to not bash that due to the fact that I've got to constitute and work and bash different stuff.' "

Amazon and Waller-Bridge person declined to remark connected the rumors.

Vikki Blake is simply a reporter, critic, columnist, and consultant. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.