After announcing who will have the honor of playing Lara Croft in the new upcoming Tomb Raider series, Amazon has finally lifted the veil on the entire cast and its characters.
The end clap may have been given for the series Tomb Raider: The Legends of Lara Croft on Netflix, but that doesn’t mean that the Crystal Dynamics adventurer has said her last word. On the contrary. To paraphrase the heroine in the trailer for Tomb Raider Catalyst : this one has only just begun. Thus, in addition to preparing for her return to video game format, Lara Croft is preparing to return to the small screen in the hands of Prime Videowith a new live action series directed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge. And we finally know more about him.
Amazon’s Tomb Raider series reveals its cast
After several weeks of rumors of all kinds, the casting of Tomb Raider has indeed been made official by Amazon, which has revealed no less than eleven characters to appear in the series. Alongside Sophie Turnermade official as Lara Croft several months ago now, will therefore include:
- Martin Bobb-Semple as Zip, Lara’s close friend and IT technician
- Jason Isaacs as Atlas DeMornay, Lara’s uncle
- Bill Paterson as Winston, butler of the Croft family
However, things do not stop there since this new Tomb Raider series will also be an opportunity to meet a large number of new characters, never appeared in the franchise until now. And here again, Amazon and Waller-Bridge did not hesitate to pull out all the stops in terms of casting:
- Jack Bannon will play Gerry, Lara’s personal driver
- John Heffernan will play David, a burned-out civil servant who finds himself entangled in the world of adventuress
- Celia Imrie will play Francine, head of development at the British Museum
- Paterson Joseph will play Thomas Warner, a high-ranking official responsible for restoring order to the bazaar
- Sashu Luss will play Sasha, a new competitive opponent for Lara
- Juliette Motamed will play Georgia, a dedicated curator at the British Museum
- Sigourney Weaver will play Evelyn Wallis, a mysterious and ambitious woman who wants to exploit the heroine’s talents
- August Wittgenstein will play Lukas, a grave robber sharing a common past with Lara
The mythology at the heart of the story already known?
This is the official information revealed by Amazon. Let us add all the same that in the process, the account Geek Vibes Nation announced on X that the story of the series, currently unknown, would focus on Nordic mythology and Ragnarök. “We also heard that there will be no connection to Tomb Raider Underworld” nevertheless specifies the source, without revealing where this information comes from. To be taken with a grain of salt, therefore, in any case until nothing has been made official by the creators of the series.
Sources : Amazon, Geek Vibes Nation
