EXCLUSIVE: In what’s shaping as much as be one of many hottest TV casting searches this fall, Amazon MGM Studios has assembled a wishlist of achieved younger actors for the function of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, Prime Video’s high-profile sequence adaptation of the online game franchise from Emmy-winning Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Sophie Turner (Recreation Of Thrones) and Lucy Boynton (Bohemian Rhapsody) are poised to check for the half beforehand performed on the massive display screen by Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander, sources inform Deadline.
It’s unclear who else could be doing a check for the well-known function, a course of that has been shrouded in secrecy. A number of the names on the wishlist alongside Turner and Boynton, together with Emma Corrin and Mackenzie Davis, aren’t believed to be testing. A rep for Amazon MGM Studios declined remark.
The mixture of among the finest identified motion heroines in widespread tradition and one of many high feminine TV creators in Waller-Bridge has tuned Lara Croft right into a hotly pursued function for actors of their late 20s and 30s.
Tomb Raider, which Amazon MGM Studios Head Jennifer Salke known as “epic” and “globe-trotting” whereas saying the sequence order in Could, has been a ardour venture for author/govt producer Waller-Bridge, who spoke fondly of the title character on the time of the pickup.
“Lara Croft means rather a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this journey. Bats ‘n all,” she stated in Could.
Tomb Raider is govt produced by Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins via Wells Road Productions, Dmitri M. Johnson via dj2 Leisure, Michael Scheel, and rights holders Legendary Tv in addition to Crystal Dynamics. Greenblatt and Andolina are consulting producers below their Star Get together banner. The sequence is produced by Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM Studios.
Turner, an Emmy nominee for her first main function as Sansa Stark on Recreation Of Thrones, at the moment headlines the British crime drama restricted sequence Joan and subsequent stars in one other British present, Haven, for Prime Video, house the Tomb Raider sequence.
Boynton, identified for her roles in Bohemian Rhapsody, Homicide On the Orient Categorical and Barbie, most lately headlined Searchlight’s The Biggest Hits and subsequent performs the title function within the British historic miniseries A Merciless Love: The Ruth Ellis Story.
