Last year it was announced that the next Tomb Raider film would be released by Amazon, with Crystal Dynamics returning to development. Now, according to sources at The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab), a Tomb Raider TV series is in development for Amazon Prime, with Phoebe Waller-Bridge as writer and executive producer. Waller-Bridge previously wrote and starred in "Fleabag," was the showrunner for the first series of "Killing Eve," and was the writer of the previous James Bond film "No Time To Die."

She has appeared in films such as "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and will appear in the upcoming "Indiana Jones," but Waller-Bridge is not likely to play Lara Croft.

Not only that, Amazon is also planning a movie that will tie in with both the series and the game "to build on the connected world of Tomb Raider" (opens in new tab). Basically, it's a la la cinematic universe. (MGM lost the rights to Tomb Raider when plans for a sequel to the Vikander film fell through.)

Complicating things, Netflix is also working on a Tomb Raider series and has announced an animated version with Powerhouse, the studio that animated Castlevania. Lara Croft will be voiced by Hayley Atwell, who has played Peggy Carter in various Marvel projects. It is expected to air this year and is described as an attempt to unify the existing timeline of the character. It will be even trickier if the Amazon project reboots her again.

Amazon is currently working on a TV series based on the "Fallout" games, which begins filming in July 2022. That film will star Walton Goggins of "Justified," who coincidentally played an archaeologist in the 2018 film "Tomb Raider. Amazon's "Fallout" series is an original story, not a retelling of the game, but who knows what direction "Tomb Raider" will take. Based on Waller-Bridge's previous work, one would hope that he has a sense of humor.