The surprise has just jumped in the world of video games with the announcement of a new adaptation. Following the enormous success of The Last of Us, Prime Video prepares a cinematographic universe that will revolve around the Tomb Raider franchise. As reported Hollywood Reporter the American company is already producing a movie and a series about the adventures of Lara Croft in different places around the world.
On one hand we have a serie live actionwhich will be the first starring the English archaeologist and will have Phoebe Waller-Bridge as main writer. For those who don’t know her, she is one of the great master minds of Fleabagwinner of several Emmy awards and highly acclaimed by critics for the naturalness and humanity of the characters within the series.
On the other hand, we have a reboot in film form which will be interconnected, according to the same sources, both with the Waller-Bridge series and with the videogame Developed by Amazon Games together with Crystal Dynamics, the studio in charge of creating the new Tomb Raider trilogy that has been so successful both in sales and critics.
Amazon’s plan is clear: They intend to create a cinematic universe with the archaeologist as the central axis similar to that of Marvel or DC, although obviously on a smaller scale. It is also likely that, depending on the success of the first game, they decide to release more titles that match the shows and movies starring Lara Croft.
