Amazon’s commitment to Tomb Raider is far more ambitious than you might think

Hollywood Reporter Reveals Amazon’s Plans to Revitalize Franchise tomb Raider. As they say, the adventures of Lara Croft prophesy a very promising future. I intend to achieve in ambition what Marvel has achieved. with its unified universe of series and films.

Amazon recently teamed up with dj2 Entertainment’s Dimitri M. Johnson to discuss the rights to an upcoming feature film from tomb Raider. Therefore, a franchise featuring the most famous adventurer in video games there will be a new movie, series and a new video game which is already under development.

One of the aforementioned Wednesday’s sources called the plan “one of Amazon’s biggest commitments since Lord of the Rings“. Taking into account that the company invested about $250 million in the rights of the latter alonewe could see tomb Raider take a figure of the same size.

At the moment we don’t know too much about new projects. The last thing we knew about the next video game tomb Raider is that it will be developed on Unreal Engine 5, and which I will try to unite all the timelines of Lara Croft. For its part, it is known that actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge will also appear in it (flea). Of course, it’s in a very early stage of development, so there’s no definite actress yet…

Amazon wants to get serious about franchising tomb Raider. In this way, they intend to create a single thriving universe with series, films and video games. Of course, if successful, it can be extended to other types of products, but this is just our theory.

Amazon revives Tomb Raider as a franchise

But that is not all. In addition to the series, movie and new video game, other entertainment products are in development. this is anime tomb Raider for netflix, from the hands of dj2 Entertainment. The latter, on the other hand, are also working on adapting other video games such as Life is Strange, Disco Elysium, He takes two or little nightmares.

Of course, we will have to wait for official confirmation from Amazon. Besides, High Budget Universe Doesn’t Guarantee Success. As a close example, we have The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Powerwhich stayed halfway to what it seemed to promise in its first images and official reports.

Last of us It set the bar high in terms of adapting a video game to the small screen. maybe tomb Raider overcome this achievement with the help of Amazon? We will see. In the meantime, we remain attentive to the following statements by the company.