Amazon’s Tomb Raider Show Could Be In Trouble

There hasn’t been any official announcement, but according to some internal witnesses, the show Amazon has in development based on the Tomb Raider series…isn’t going well. In fact it might not happen at all.

The show, which still has no revealed official title (assuming it isn’t just “Tomb Raider“), was first announced in early 2023, with superstar director and actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge installed as showrunner. Since she’d scored a major critical hit with Fleabag, and was a fan of Lara and the series, there was optimism they could collaborate to make something great. Amazon, which has partial stake in the TR property these days, needed it to be good.

Then things mostly went quiet on the set. The most recent public news was the casting of Sophie Turner as Lara, which felt off, as I don’t think “strong rope-swinging superwoman firing guns at dinosaurs” when Turner comes to mind. It many not be something I have to worry about for much longer, though. IGN compiled a list of reports from various sources that point to several threats that could sink the show altogether. For one thing, Turner has other projects throughout 2025 that prevent her from filming this one.

And the reason Amazon hasn’t booked her is…they still can’t lock down a solid set of scripts for the season. The problem is apparently Waller-Bridge, who still hasn’t settled on a direction for the series after years of development and tens of millions poured into the project including her large salary. Waller-Bridge’s biggest cheerleader, Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke, was fired last week, and with that shakeup could come changes.

It was weird to have two TR TV shows in development at once, but as it stands, Netflix’s Tomb Raider: The Legend Of Lara Croft could be the only one that makes it. A second season of that show is being produced now; there’s no assured sign Amazon’s version could ever exist.