Gaming's New Lara Croft on TV's New Lara Croft

Veteran video crippled dependable Alix Wilton Regan volition soon beryllium taking connected the relation of Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, but she won’t beryllium the lone one. Game of Thrones prima Sophie Turner is besides scheduled to represent the aforesaid quality successful Prime Video’s adaptation of the series.

We had the accidental to talk to Alix Wilton Regan, who is “really honored to person been trusted with this iconic British character,” and get her take: "I really cognize Sophie personally and she volition beryllium the astir cleanable on-camera Lara Croft that you could imagine. She's going to beryllium wonderful."

“It did request different iconic British histrion to instrumentality it connected for the tv series. So Sophie, to me, is simply a precise earthy choice,” Wilton Regan continued: “She besides looks similar a Grecian goddess, if you've ever met her. And Lara? Lara's hot, guys. So let's person a truly hot, truly talented, iconic British histrion playing her arsenic well, you know?”

We besides asked however she’d header with the inevitable comparisons that volition beryllium made betwixt the 2 performances: "I consciousness good with it. I recognize video games. I enactment predominantly successful the video crippled satellite and I emotion it.”

Alix Wilton Regan besides shared a pragmatic knowing of assemblage reactions: “Some radical volition emotion my games, immoderate radical volition hatred them, immoderate radical volition emotion the TV show, immoderate radical volition hatred it. That's okay. We're each entitled to similar what we similar to dislike."

At past year's The Game Awards, we learned that the next-gen Tomb Raider that developer Crystal Dynamics announced 3 years agone is titled Tomb Raider: Catalyst. Published by Amazon Game Studios, it's acceptable to merchandise successful 2027 connected PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X and S. Meanwhile, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is simply a reimagining of the archetypal Tomb Raider game, built with Unreal Engine 5 and owed retired this year. Both games volition diagnostic Alix Wilton Regan arsenic Lara Croft, replacing histrion Camilla Luddington — who portrayed Lara Croft successful the 2013-2018 reboot trilogy.

Alix Wilton Regan has played a fig of large video crippled characters implicit the years, including the Female Inquisitor successful some Dragon Age: Inquisition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Samantha Traynor successful Mass Effect 3, Alt Cunningham successful Cyberpunk 2077, and Aya successful Assassin's Creed Origins. Regan was acceptable to play Joanna Dark successful Microsoft's Perfect Dark reboot, but it was canceled arsenic portion of a large circular of layoffs.

Meanwhile, Amazon revealed a archetypal look astatine Sophie Turner arsenic Lara Croft successful January this year. The authoritative photograph shows Turner sporting a look that’s instantly adjacent to classical Lara Croft, from her dual thigh holsters to her red-tinted sunglasses. Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag) is aboard the bid arsenic creator, writer, enforcement producer, and is co-showrunner alongside Chad Hodge (Good Behavior). Jonathan Van Tulleken (Shōgun) is connected platform arsenic director.

Mat Jones is simply a Senior Social Producer for IGN based retired of London, UK