Amazon plans to build a “connected world” between the games, TV, and film
Lara Croft has seen her fair share of live-action adaptations, but this time she’s raiding the small screen with aTomb RaiderTV series and a film in development at Amazon.THRreported that the Emmy-winning Fleabag writer Pheobe Waller-Bridge is set to pen (and executive produce) the upcoming show, though there’s no word on who’s attached with the film.THR statesthat Amazon is looking to “build out a connected world of Tomb Raider, with the video game, TV series and film.” This sounds a little ambitious, considering that Crytal Dynamics' game is already in production, so we’ll have to wait and see how the adaptations interact with the games.
Amazon is all aboard the Tomb Raider train, as they’republishingCrystal Dynamic’s next game in the series, too. We’re not sure if the next Tomb Raider will follow Crystal Dynamic’s latest trilogy, which ended withShadow Of The Tomb Raider. All we really know about the next game is that it’s a single-player narrative adventure built on Unreal Engine 5 - which you could’ve worked out without being told.
Tomb Raider’s hopped between a few companies as of late. Last year,Embracer Group bought the IPand Crystal Dynamics from Square Enix - along withDeus Ex, Eidos Montreal, and more. It’s become a little impossible to track all of Embracer’s recent purchases, since they seem to acquire a new studio every other month. Most recently, they bought the entirety ofJ.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth franchise.One ring to own them all, I guess.
