Sophie Turner's Tomb Raider: Amazon's $100M Disaster That Almost Never Happened

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Sophie Turner's Tomb Raider: Amazon's $100M Disaster That Almost Never Happened

Sophie Turner is officially Lara Croft - but the journey to get here was INSANE. After Amazon spent over $100 million on Phoebe Waller-Bridge with ZERO shows delivered, went through TWO writers' rooms, burned tens of millions in development costs, and nearly shelved the entire project... the Tomb Raider series has FINALLY started filming. In this video, I break down: ✅ Why Amazon spent $100M+ on Phoebe Waller-Bridge for nothing ✅ The development hell that almost killed this show ✅ How Sophie Turner prepared for 8 hours/day for nearly a YEAR ✅ The truth about the previous Tomb Raider movies' box office ✅ Why this matters more than just another video game adaptation ✅ The full cast reveal including Sigourney Weaver & Jason Isaacs ✅ What Amazon's REAL plans are for a Tomb Raider universe From the $432M Angelina Jolie films to Alicia Vikander's reboot, from 100 million games sold to the franchise's 28-year history - this is everything you need to know about Prime Video's most expensive ga...