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Game of Thrones' Sophie Turner might be Lara Croft in the new Amazon Tomb Raider reboot from Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge
A Sophie Turner Lara Croft in Phoebe Waller-Bridge's Tomb Raider would be the prestige TV combo we didn't know we needed
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In order to find treasure worth millions and potentially billions of dollars, Lara Croft has to go through a lot of troubles: ancient booby traps, zombies, and the occasional evil corporate overlord among them... but for Prime Video to do so, all they have to do is treat Sophie Turner right. According to Deadline, the former Game of Thrones star is in talks to play the titular Tomb Raider in, get this, Phoebe Waller-Bridge's adaptation of the games.
Now, I'm not one to separate genre fare from prestige television (I mean, Game of Thrones is kind of proof that they needn't be different categories, no?), but I have to admit I am thrilled that two people with such dramatic chops are lining up for this new Tomb Raider chapter. Phoebe Waller-Bridge came to prominence with Fleabag, a format-defying comedy that, almost a decade after its premiere, is still considered one of the finest offerings in Prime Video's wide library. Beyond that, Waller-Bridge has also proven her abilities in the international intrigue field as well, as the creator of cat-and-mouse thriller Killing Eve.
Beyond her turn in Westeros, Sophie Turner has also gotten to play on the stage of prestige drama before this, starring in the based-on-a-true-story HBO crime thriller The Staircase. Turner plays Margaret Ratliffe, a family friend to the story's real-life subjects, Michael and Kathleen Patterson. And while her Fox X-Men movies were not exactly lauded by critics, many fans were still pleased with her performance as Marvel's most resurrectable badass, Jean Grey.
Together, this is a pair that brings more than a handful of undead-blasting guns apiece to the Tomb Raider story. As my friend and yours Trent Cannon once opined, the idea of the "video game curse" in film and TV adaptations is significantly overblown, and if Prime Video plays their cards right, they might just turn that myth into ancient history, the kind that even a Tomb Raider can't turn over.
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