The Tomb Raider franchise seems to have been a graveyard for oddly overqualified people. Angelina Jolie played the character of Lara Croft twice after winning an Oscar, and subsequently Alicia Vikander gave the English aristocrat-turned-global adventurer a go. Neither left much of a mark – which is why it is all the more surprising that Fleabag creator and star Phoebe Waller-Bridge is to write the scripts for a new Amazon series based on the video game.
It has been wryly observed that, despite her heroics in the forthcoming Indiana Jones film, Waller-Bridge herself is not expected to play Lara Croft. That’s a disappointment for those of us who would enjoy a mixture of arch smirks to the camera and jokes about kinky sex from the globe-trotting, shorts-clad daredevil.
Waller-Bridge has had a lucrative deal (said to be in ‘the mid-eight-figure range’) with Amazon for some time now, but little of any note has come from it
Waller-Bridge has had a lucrative deal (said to be in ‘the mid-eight-figure range’) with Amazon for some time now, but little of any note has come from it.
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