Sigourney Weaver Circling Role In Live-Action ‘Tomb Raider’ Series Starring Sophie Turner – The Dish
EXCLUSIVE: With her time on Pandora coming to end with Avatar: Fire and Ash bowing this month, Sigourney Weaver may already have another high-profile property in her sights. While a deal has not closed, sources tell Deadline that she is in talks to join the upcoming Tomb Raider series for Prime Video. Sophie Turner is set to star as Lara Croft, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge on as writer and executive producer.
Prime Video had no comment on the Weaver news. It is unknown who Weaver would play.
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Chad Hodge is set as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Waller-Bridge and Jonathan Van Tulleken (Shōgun, Dope Thief), who is director and executive producer. The series, from Amazon MGM Studios, has set January 19 as the start of production.
The series, from Story Kitchen, Crystal Dynamics and Amazon MGM, is also executive produced by Crystal Dynamics; Waller-Bridge and Jenny Robins through Wells Street Productions; Dmitri M. Johnson, Mike Goldberg and Timothy I. Stevenson through Story Kitchen; Michael Scheel; Hodge; and Legendary Television.
If a deal closes, it will mark another high-profile project Weaver can add to her career that started with Alien and continued on with box office smash hits that include Avatar.
She can be seen next in Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third film in the record-setting James Cameron franchise that bows December 19. Next year she will appear in Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. She also has the Bryan Fuller pic Dust Bunny, which opens this weekend.
Weaver is repped by UTA and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
