Fleabag Creator scripted Amazon’s Tomb Raider adaptation
If you, like me, are having a hard time keeping track of all the video game adaptations to TV and moviesyou may have forgotten that a Grave Thief series in development at Amazon. Well, guys, I’m not going to forget about this show any time soon, now writer/actor/comedian Phoebe Waller-Bridge is said to be writing the script for the show.
According to a report from hollywood reporterWaller-Bridge joins the live-action show as a writer, although there’s no word on whether or not vermin the star will be in front of the camera at this time. Besides writing, she will act as an executive producer alongside Ryan Andolina and Amanda Grenblatt, both of whom recently Amazon fruit to start their own production company and have made follow-up deals with Bezos and co. to work on projects like Grave Thief series.
If you’re not familiar with Waller-Bridge’s work, she’s known on the internet as the main character in vermina two-season series (also produced and streamed by Amazon), it’s also one of the few examples we have of the perfect form of television.
Want to see two short pieces on self-perception about a woman trying to escape feelings of separation and grief? It’s streaming on Prime. Don’t thank me, because it will ruin you for days. For Waller-Bridge’s edgy writing and performance, stay with Andrew Scott as the Hot Priest.
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This series will be the third time Tomb Raider has seen a live-action adaptation, with Angelina Jolie and Alicia Vikander portraying Lara Croft in two separate film series. At the moment, it remains unclear if this show will be based on the classic Tomb Raider games or the survival-oriented settings of the reboot series.
While the Amazon adaptation is in the works, developer Crystal Dynamics is also in the midst of developing a new Tomb Raider game. The studio was recently acquired by The Embracer Group after Square Enix sold it and other studios in an effort to downsize and shift focus to other things like blockchain.