With production expected to begin next year, the time is ticking ever closer to the world finally learning the identity of the new 007. After acquiring the iconic spy franchise for an eye-watering $1 billion, Amazon’s James Bond era is on the way, with two of the finest minds working today already on board. Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight will pen the next Bond movie, with the great Denis Villeneuve turning his screenplay into an unmissable spy thriller, following the release of his hotly anticipated Dune: Part Three this December.
But Bond isn’t the only big franchise Amazon has taken control of. The iconic Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider franchise is the latest beloved character to be given the Prime Video treatment. Currently, a new series based on the video game is in production, with Fleabag‘s Phoebe Waller-Bridge taking on the role of creator, writer, and co-showrunner. But who is donning the tactical gear as Croft? That task will be tackled by Game of Thrones favorite Sophie Turner, who joins the likes of Sigourney Weaver, Jason Isaacs, Martin Bobb-Semple, Jack Bannon, and more in a stacked cast.
Can Turner prove the perfect choice for Croft? Only time will tell, but in the meantime, the most recent great actress to take on the role is staging a comeback. It was released in 2018; Alicia Vikander transformed into an impressive action star to tackle the role, even gaining 5kg of muscle to do most of her own stunts. This came just a couple of years after she won an Academy Award for her portrayal of portrait painter Gerda Wegener in The Danish Girl, showcasing her impressive range. Now, eight years on, and with the new Prime Video series on the way, Vikander’s Tomb Raider is currently one of the ten most-watched movies on Netflix in the world.
Your answers have pointed to one action hero above all others. This is the person built to have your back — for better or considerably, spectacularly worse.
Your partner doesn’t talk much, doesn’t need to, and will have assessed every threat in your immediate environment before you’ve finished your first sentence. John Rambo is not a man of plans or politics — he is a force of nature shaped by survival, loyalty, and a capacity for endurance that goes beyond anything training can produce. He will not leave you behind. He has never left anyone behind who deserved to come home. What you get with Rambo is the most capable, most quietly ferocious partner imaginable — one who has been through things that would have broken anyone else, and who chose to keep going anyway. You’ll never need to ask if he has your back. You’ll just know.
Your partner will arrive perfectly dressed, perfectly briefed, and with a cover story so convincing it’ll take you a moment to remember what’s actually true. James Bond is the most professionally dangerous person in any room he enters — and the most disarmingly charming, which is the point. He operates in a world of layers, where nothing is what it appears and every advantage is used without apology. You’ll never be bored. You’ll occasionally be furious. But when it matters — when the mission is genuinely on the line and the margin for error has collapsed to nothing — Bond is exactly the partner you want. He has survived things that have no business being survivable. He does it with style. That is not nothing.
Your partner will know the history, the language, the cultural context, and exactly why the thing everyone else is ignoring is actually the most important thing in the room. Indiana Jones is brilliant, reckless, and occasionally impossible — but he is also one of the most resourceful, most genuinely knowledgeable partners you could find yourself beside. He approaches every situation with a scholar’s eye and a brawler’s instinct, which is an unusual combination and a remarkably effective one. He hates snakes and gets personally attached to objects of historical significance, both of which will slow you down at least once. It doesn’t matter. What Indy brings is irreplaceable — and the adventures you’ll have together will be the kind people write books about. Assuming you survive them.
Your partner was not supposed to be here. He does not have the right equipment, the right information, or anything approaching the right odds. He has a sarcastic remark and an absolute refusal to accept that the situation is as bad as it looks. John McClane is the greatest accidental hero in the history of action cinema — a man whose superpower is stubbornness, whose contingency plan is improvisation, and whose capacity to absorb punishment and keep moving would be alarming if it weren’t so useful. He will complain the entire time. He will make it significantly more chaotic than it needed to be. And he will absolutely, unconditionally, without question come through when it counts. Yippee-ki-yay.
Your partner has already run seventeen scenarios by the time you’ve finished reading the briefing, and the plan he’s settled on involves at least two things that should be physically impossible. Ethan Hunt operates at the absolute edge of human capability — technically, physically, and intellectually — and he brings the same relentless precision to protecting his partners that he brings to dismantling organisations that shouldn’t exist. He is not easy to know and he will never fully tell you everything. But he will carry the weight of the mission so completely, so absolutely, that your job is simply to trust him — and the remarkable thing is that trusting him always turns out to be the right call. The mission will be impossible. He will complete it anyway.
A ‘Fallout’ Favorite Also Starred in ‘Tomb Raider’
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Image via Warner BrosThe brilliant Vikander wasn’t alone in one of the most underrated video game adaptations ever. Fallout favorite Walton Goggins, Dominic West, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, and more also featured in an impressive ensemble. Sadly, the film faced negative reviews upon arrival, although it has since earned retrospective praise from fans. Against a production budget of $90 million, Tomb Raider earned a global haul of $275 million during a strong theatrical run.
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