Tomb Raider Show Adds Jason Isaacs as Amazon Preps for Production in January

Amazon’s Prime Video Tomb Raider amusement has reportedly added The White Lotus alum Jason Isaacs to its cast.

News of the latest summation to the latest live-action video crippled bid adaptation’s increasing roster comes from Deadline, which reports that Isaacs has boarded successful a enigma role. It’s different large summation for the Tomb Raider series, which already includes Sophie Turner (Game of Thrones) arsenic Lara Croft, with Sigourney Weaver (Avatar: Fire and Ash) said to inactive beryllium successful talks to join, too.

Jason Isaacs. Photo by John Shearer/WireImage.

Though details connected some Isaacs and Weaver’s roles stay nether wraps, it’s wide the squad down the Prime Video task is picking up steam arsenic they program to statesman accumulation January 19. We archetypal learned astir Amazon’s plans to make a amusement based connected the iconic video crippled adventurer erstwhile Fleabag mastermind Phoebe Waller-Bridge was announced arsenic creator, writer, and enforcement producer. It didn’t get an authoritative greenlight until May 2024, with Turner yet locked successful arsenic Lara Croft successful September of this year.

Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics, Amazon MGM, and Story Kitchen are moving connected the show, with Chad Hodge attached arsenic co-showrunner and enforcement producer. Jonathan van Tulleken (Shogun) is besides successful the premix arsenic an enforcement shaper and director.

We’ll request to hold a portion longer to larn much astir Isaacs’ portion successful the caller Tomb Raider show, with its merchandise date, crippled details, and further casting accusation inactive yet to beryllium announced. Story Kitchen precocious told fans to expect a task that volition “reinvent the franchise connected a monolithic scale,” teasing that it volition beryllium interconnected with the video crippled beingness it spawned from.

Just due to the fact that Lara Croft is taking different stab successful the satellite of live-action doesn’t mean her clip successful video crippled has travel to an end. Last week, Crystal Dynamics revealed 2 caller projects for the series: Tomb Raider: Catalyst and Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis. The second is simply a remake of the franchise’s archetypal entry, and the erstwhile is simply a brand-new installment, with some announced for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S astatine The Game Awards 2025 past week.

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