Just lately, it was introduced that Alix Wilton-Regan will take over for Camila Luddington within the function of Lara Croft for the following two video games within the sequence. In a brand new interview, she stated she is afraid that it could all crumble after the final sport she was set to seem in, the Perfect Dark reboot, was canceled.
Wilton-Regan informed TheGamer that she was filming her scenes as Joanna Dark for the Perfect Dark sport on the similar time she was taking pictures Lara for the brand new Tomb Raider video games. It was “great and genuinely one of the creatively thrilling occasions of my life.”
Nonetheless, she stated she was and stays involved that Tomb Raider might crumble, provided that Perfect Dark was canceled. “I simply felt so relieved that I nonetheless had Lara, however I additionally felt actually frightened about dropping Lara. I am nonetheless scared of dropping Lara,” she stated.
Wilton-Regan additionally shared new perception into what occurred with Perfect Dark and the way she felt in regards to the sport’s shuttering and the closure of developer The Initiative.
“I used to be as shocked, shocked, and devastated as everybody else was when the funding was pulled, and the studio was closed,” Wilton-Regan stated. “I didn’t see it coming. I used to be completely blindsided when the challenge was defunded.”
She stated she was taking pictures scenes for Perfect Dark in 2023, 2024, and even in 2025 previous to Microsoft’s announcement in July 2025 that the challenge wouldn’t go ahead.
“To my information, we have been fairly far alongside. I might achieved total chapters of this universe.” She went on to say that it was her understanding that Microsoft was “actually pleased” with what the crew at The Initiative had turned in as much as that time.
GTA dad or mum firm Take-Two was stated to have been concerned in a possible buy of Perfect Dark to maintain the challenge alive, however a deal didn’t materialize.
“That was the day I used to be actually unhappy as a result of that was the day I misplaced hope,” Wilton-Regan stated.
As for the brand new Tomb Raider video games, a remake of the primary sport referred to as Legacy of Atlantis is coming in 2026, with a brand-new sport, Catalyst, set to launch in 2027.