Amazon’s upcoming live-action Tomb Raider series from Pheobe Waller-Bridge will interconnect with the video games, rather than being a standalone story with its own continuity in the vein of the Angelina Jolie films.
This latest nugget of Tomb Raider-laced information comes from Story Kitchen, a production company tied to the series.
As shared on the company’s website, and spotted by social media account Infinity Tomb Raider, the deal between Story Kitchen and Amazon MGM studios “will reinvent the franchise on a massive scale, interconnecting a new live-action television series and video games into a unified storytelling universe”.
Along with the show, Amazon’s game department is also assisting on the next mainline Tomb Raider entry with developer Crystal Dynamics. Story Kitchen’s wording here could therefore suggest that whichever comes first – the show or the game – will perhaps lead into the other somehow, or at least drop some clues at what Tomb Raider fans can perhaps expect from the franchise’s future.
It will also be interesting to see how Amazon’s interconnecting of the games will differ from what Netflix did with its own Tomb Raider animated series, The Legend of Lara Croft. This series took place after the events of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and included brief flashbacks to Lara’s time on Yamatai from the 2013 reboot. Meanwhile, both Jonah and Sam from this trilogy of games make an appearance in Netflix’s Tomb Raider animated series.
However, other than Sophie Turner as Lara Croft, we are yet to find out which other characters from the Tomb Raider series more generally will be popping up in Amazon’s live-action adventure. Will Turner’s Lara also meet those from earlier games such as Jonah? Or even someone like Werner Von Croy, Lara’s former mentor who popped up in the likes of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation?
The wording from Story Kitchen doesn’t make it totally clear which games, past or future, it will be unifying. It’s unclear if the company is referring to Amazon and Crystal Dynamics’ new game in the franchise, or if it will be canon with previous games in the series.
Earlier this week, actor Martin Bobb-Semple was cast in Amazon’s live-action Tomb Raider series, but as who remains to be seen (though, some have speculated he will play tech-expert Zip).
Hopefully, we will hear more information about Amazon’s Tomb Raider series and game soon!
