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Rich Stanton

Amazon's Tomb Raider series reportedly 'dead' after tens of millions in development costs resulted in no script

Tomb Raider.

Following years of rumours, Amazon Prime Video officially revealed plans for a new TV series based on the Tomb Raider games in May 2024. The announcement's big hook was Phoebe Waller-Bridge as writer and producer, who's best-known as the creator of Fleabag and head writer of Killing Eve, and amped-up her own fandom for the series: "Lara means a lot to me, as she does to many, and I can't wait to go on this adventure. Bats 'n all."

Well, it was a nice idea. The Daily Mail now cites a source saying that Lara Croft's mooted small screen adventures are "not going ahead", while another source is even more unambiguous: the project is "dead." Neither Prime Video nor Waller-Bridge's representatives have commented.

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