Amazon Cast a New Lara Croft and the Polygons Are FURIOUS
Sophie Turner gets cast, and suddenly everyone remembers a very specific arrangement of triangles from 1996
Somewhere deep in the internet, a stone door slid open, dramatic music kicked in, and an entire comment section crashed like a Windows PC from the 90s.
Amazon’s Tomb Raider series has reportedly cast Sophie Turner as Lara Croft, and predictably, people immediately lost their minds.
Tomb Raider first landed in the late ’90s, printed money, and then stubbornly refused to die. Sequels, spin-offs, movies, reboots — if there’s a way to relaunch a franchise, Tomb Raider has already done it, probably twice. Along the way, Lara Croft stopped being just a video-game protagonist and became a full-blown cultural icon - you didn’t need a PlayStation to recognise her silhouette.
Reboot Me Baby!
Then came the gritty reboots. Slower. Heavier. More grounded. And to be fair, they were good games — well-made, well-reviewed and technically impressive. But for a lot of fans, something shifted. Lara stopped feeling like someone who chose danger and started feeling like someone being dragged through it, one miserable set piece at a time.
That’s why early set photos matter more than they probably should. Shorts. Tank top. Practical, iconic, zero overthinking. It’s not a manifesto or a culture-war statement — it’s a visual signal. A quiet suggestion that this version might actually understand the essence of Tomb Raider.
Oh Sophie!
Sophie Turner makes sense here. She’s already shown she can project authority without shouting and confidence without spelling it out. Her Game of Thrones run proved she can command a scene, sell growth, and carry presence — all far more useful for Lara Croft than another round of origin-story soul-searching.
This casting doesn’t rewrite history or erase what came before. It’s just another attempt to get the balance right. And honestly? This one looks like it might.
And yes — the polygons still count.