Sport of Thrones star Sophie Turner is reportedly in talks to play Lara Croft in Prime Video’s upcoming live-action Tomb Raider collection.
Deadline lately reported that Turner, who performed Sansa Stark within the HBO collection, was among the many actors who auditioned for the position.
Now its sources declare she is the present front-runner to play Lara Croft, and that negotiations are presently underway.
If profitable, Turner – who additionally performed Jean Gray in X-Males: Apocalypse and lately starred in ITV drama Joan – can be the third actor to tackle the live-action Lara position, following Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander.
It was introduced again in Might that Amazon‘s Prime Video had positioned a collection order for a live-action Tomb Raider adaptation.
Phoebe Waller-Bridge, the British actor, screenwriter and producer who gained Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA awards for her work on Fleabag, is serving as author and government producer on the present.
“If I might inform my teenage self this was taking place I believe she’d explode,” Waller-Bridge stated on the time.
“Tomb Raider has been an enormous a part of my life and I really feel extremely privileged to be bringing it to tv with such passionate collaborators. Lara Croft means quite a bit to me, as she does to many, and I can’t wait to go on this journey. Bats ‘n all.”
