According to GamerBraves, production on Amazon's live-action Tomb Raider series has been paused after lead actress Sophie Turner sustained an injury on set. No timeline for resumption has been confirmed.
Why Fans Are Paying Close Attention
For most productions, an injury-related pause is a temporary inconvenience — crews reschedule, actors recover, and cameras roll again. But Tomb Raider is a franchise with a particularly passionate fanbase, and Lara Croft is one of gaming's most iconic characters. Any disruption to this adaptation is going to generate conversation, and the most electric version of that conversation is the one casting fans have been having for years: who should play Lara Croft?
Sophie Turner was an intriguing and somewhat unexpected choice for the role. If the injury is serious enough to cause extended delays — or, in a more dramatic scenario, a recasting — Amazon would be making one of the biggest casting decisions in recent streaming history. That's exactly the kind of moment the fancasting community exists for.
What myCast Fans Have Been Saying About Lara Croft
The myCast community has been building out Tomb Raider dream casts across multiple stories, and the data gives us a pretty clear picture of who fans want to see wielding a pickaxe and raiding ancient tombs.
In the most-voted Tomb Raider story on the platform, Tomb Raider, Alexandra Daddario has claimed the top spot for Lara Croft with 4 votes — making her the single most-endorsed pick for the role across all myCast stories. It's not hard to see the logic: Daddario has the physicality, the screen presence, and a genre filmography that suggests she could handle the action-adventure demands of the character. Interestingly, that same story also has fans casting Chris Hemsworth as Terry Sheridan with 2 votes and Chris Pine as Alex West — a supporting cast that would make for a pretty blockbuster ensemble.
Meanwhile, across two other fan cast stories — Tomb Raider and — picks up votes for Lara Croft, which makes a certain kind of sense given that Vikander already played the role in the 2018 film reboot. Some fans clearly want to see her get another shot at the character in a longer-form series format. The second of those stories rounds out a full ensemble, with fans tapping as Richard Croft, as Mathias Vogel, and as Ana Miller — a genuinely compelling cast on paper.