- Amazon has confirmed who will play Lara Croft in her Grave Raider TV show
- The Live-Action series also begins filming at the beginning of 2026
- The fan -reaction on Prime Videos top choice for his protagonist has been mixed
Amazon MGM Studios has revealed that Sophie Turner will produce Lara Croft in her upcoming Grave Raider TV adaptation.
Turner that will immediately become recognizable to fans of Games of Thrones and the 20th century Fox’s second X-Men Filmfranchise was published as the show’s lead yesterday (September 3).
Sophie Turner began playing as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider series from Amazon MGM Studios.phoebe Waller-Bridge acts as a creator, author, performer and co-showrunner. Jonathan van Tulleken Set as director and executive producer and Chad Hodge collectorSeptember 3, 2025
In a press release that accompanies the message about Tombraid.com, Amazon also confirmed that production would begin on the primary video TV-Original in January 2026. Phoebe Waller-Bridge, which is linked to the project since January 2023, will serve as series creator, producer, lead author and co-showrunner. The Fleabag and Kills Eva Alun will be assembled in co-showrunning tasks by Chad Hodge, while Jonathan van Tulleken is its primary director.
“I’m excited about goals for playing Lara Croft,” Turner said in a statement. “She is such an iconic character that means so much to so many – and I give everything I have. They are massive shoes to fill, after in the steps of Angelina and Alicia with their power center performances, but with phoebe at the helm, we (and Lara) are all in very safe hands. I can’t wait for you all to see what we have cooking.”
In his own statement, Waller-Bridge said, “I am so excited to announce the formidable Sophie Turner like our Lara with this phenomenal creative team. It’s not very often you get to make a show of this scale with a character you grew up. Everyone on board is wildly passionate for Lara and are all as scandalous,
Why Turners Casting has not been universally well received by Tomb Raider-Related
Although Waller-Bridge, Amazon leaders and Turner themselves are excited that the latter is set to produce one of the most iconic video game figures of all time, there are some Grave Raider Fans who are not so excited.
As soon as the news fell, various threads that sprouted up on several Reddit pages were mostly filled with negative reactions to Turners Casting.
One of the most immediate concerns that fans have is the fact that Turner is a natural red -haired. Given the Croft Sports Brown Hair, some have suggested that this is a great oversight of the show’s executive team’s side. But hello, wigs are found for a reason …
This observation is small fry compared to other criticism aimed at Amazon for hiring Turner. Threads on R/Television and R/Tombraids are full of people who suggest that Alicia Vikander, the latest actor playing croft in a live-action capacity should have been Prime Video’s Top Pick. Meanwhile, other Marvel star Hayley Atwell, who votes Croft in Netflix’s animated intake of action adventure, suggested video game franchise is a better option.
Some comments were targeted at Turner. In fact, varied reactions from “such strange casting” and to be a “horrible choice” to the fact that Turner is a “charisma -vakuum” and doesn’t have the “bad ass mood you need to play Lara Croft”. In a thread of R/Entertainment, an dissatisfied user even went as far as cruel to write: “It seems that they are trying to be so true to the original games. Because Turner has got the acting interval from a 1990 -Talk polygon video play”. Ouch!
There are those who believe that Turner fits well with Croft, with some Redditors who wish her well in the role and/or indicates that they were gently optimistic about her casting. Others said they will withhold their verdict until a trailer, which probably does not hit the Internet until the end of 2026/early 2027, will be released.
But largely it seems that most fans are not happy with this message. We’ll see if they had the right to be skeptical when Amazon Grave Raider TV show is eventually here.
