Sophie Turner Injury Briefly Halts ‘Tomb Raider’ Shoot

Production pause

Prime Video’s upcoming Tomb Raider series has temporarily stopped filming while Sophie Turner recovers from an injury, according to a statement confirmed by Variety.

Turner is set to play Lara Croft in the adaptation, which is being written and executive produced by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, best known for Fleabag. A Prime Video representative said: “Sophie Turner recently experienced a minor injury. As a precaution, production has briefly paused to allow her time to recover. We look forward to resuming production as soon as possible.”

British tabloid The Sun was first to report the injury. Its account said Turner, best known for Game of Thrones, had aggravated a pre-existing back injury and that the shutdown could last at least a month, with the possibility of stretching to six months. Prime Video has not confirmed that timeline.

The series started shooting in January. A release date has not been announced, although the show is currently expected to debut in 2027. Whether this pause affects that plan is not yet clear. Entertainment schedules, as ever, remain a delicate invention.

Cast and franchise background

Alongside Turner, the series stars Martin Bobb-Semple, Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Jack Bannon, John Heffernan, Bill Paterson, Paterson Joseph, Sasha Luss, Juliette Motamed, Celia Imrie and August Wittgenstein. The source material, naturally, has been through more lives than most fictional properties.

Tomb Raider first launched as a video game in 1996 and has since been revived several times. Two new games, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and Tomb Raider: Catalyst, are scheduled for 2026 and 2027.

On screen, Lara Croft has previously been played by Angelina Jolie in 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and by Alicia Vikander in the 2018 film Tomb Raider, which was not nearly as warmly received.

There is plenty riding on Prime Video’s version, especially after the platform’s successful Fallout adaptation, which stars Ella Purnell and Kyle MacLachlan and returned for a second season earlier this year.

The Tomb Raider intellectual property is owned by Swedish company Embracer, which bought longtime developer Crystal Dynamics in 2022. That was also the year Embracer acquired Middle-Earth Enterprises, owner of the Lord of the Rings rights.