Information emerged last week that Amazon is preparing a new Tomb Raider series, which already made us suspect that the company wanted to be Lara Croft’s new home. That being said, it seems that his plans are much more ambitious and that he wants to transform Tomb Raider into something like what Marvel is today.
According to information from The Hollywood Reporter, Amazon is very committed to the Tomb Raider franchise. Apparently, his plan is to make it prosper with various products such as series, movies and video games that are part of an interconnected universe.
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It is worth mentioning that it is expected to be one of the largest investments Amazon has made in entertainment since the millionaire it put into making The Lord of the Rings series a reality. With this it is clear that it will be a truly important project.
As part of this project we have the new installment of Tomb Raider that will be developed by Crystal Dynamics, but distributed by Amazon Games. We also have the series for Prime Video that Phoebe Waller-Bridge is working on.
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A new Tomb Raider movie is on the way
The source also ensures that those are not the only Tomb Raider projects in development. It turns out that Amazon teamed up with dj2 Entertainment to make a new Tomb Raider movie, which is expected to be a big-budget production.
In case you don’t know, dj2 Entertainment is a production house that has already worked on entertainment properties. In fact, they are responsible for Netflix’s Tomb Raider anime; from Sonic: The Movie and its sequel, as well as future adaptations such as Life is Strange, Disco Elysium, Sleeping Dogs, Little Nightmares and It Takes Two.
What did you think of the possibility of a huge Tomb Raider universe? Do you think it could work or that it would be a failure? Tell us in the comments.
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