Phoebe Waller-Bridge co-wrote the James Bond movie Mourir peut attendre (2021) and appear as Helena Shaw in Indiana Jones et le Cadran de la destinée (2023). Both James Bond and Indiana Jones were the major influences behind Lara Croft.
Sophie Turner is the second Game of Thrones (2011) actress to play Lara Croft after House of the Dragon (2022) actress Emily Carey who play young Lara in Tomb Raider (2018).
Sophie Turner is the third actress to play Lara Croft in live action production, but the first English actress to play the British character. Her first actress, Angelina Jolie, is American, while her second actress, Alicia Vikander, is Swedish.
The Daily Mail reported on April 3, 2025 that Amazon Studios cancelled this planned series after years stuck in development hell, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge's scripts taking too long to write and then being judged not ready to shoot when they finally arrived. The project was dealt a serious blow the week before the announcement when Jennifer Salke, who gave Tomb Raider the green light and was personally overseeing the project, was booted from her role as the head of Amazon Studios.
Salke had signed Waller-Bridge to a staggering $20 million-a-year golden handcuffs deal back in 2019, when she was white-hot after her series Fleabag (2016). That deal, which is estimated to have netted the British star $100 million, has become one of the most notorious flubs in Hollywood.