The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a bit of wider in the present day with a Deadline report revealing {that a} present based mostly on Quantic Dream’s action-adventure Beyond: Two Souls is now in growth at Elliot Page’s Pageboy Productions.
Page, you will recall, starred in Beyond: Two Souls, a “psychological motion thriller” a couple of lady whose highly effective telepathic talents lead her into an internet of intrigue and conspiracies. It was effectively acquired when it launched for the PlayStation 3 in 2013, though not with out criticism: Former PC Gamer wordsmith Andy Kelly stated forward of the sport’s years-later launch on PC that “it looks like David Cage is making an attempt to make ten utterly totally different movies directly, leading to a complicated jumble of themes and tone.”
“It does not know whether or not it is a supernatural thriller, a coming-of-age teen melodrama, or an motion film,” Kelly wrote in 2019. “It leaps between time intervals and genres so wildly, and for thus little motive, that it is nearly unimaginable to get invested within the story. And when Jodie visits a clever previous Native American within the New Mexico desert, effectively… let’s simply say ‘write what you recognize’ is a bit of recommendation Cage ought to have taken to coronary heart.
“There’s a SWAT workforce too, in fact, and a gratuitous bathe scene.”
That bathe scene turned out to be a problem for causes other than its gratuitousness: Page’s character seems nude within the scene, and whereas the character mannequin is not totally seen within the recreation, some enterprising jerk who presumably had a PS3 devkit used a “free digicam” mode to create and add photographs to the web. Page did not really get bare for the sport—the 3D mannequin was made by an artist—however nonetheless reportedly explored authorized motion towards Sony over the pictures after efforts to work issues out with Quantic Dream did not go wherever. Sony ultimately issued takedown notices to websites internet hosting the pictures, and the potential authorized motion doesn’t seem to have been pursued additional.
All water underneath the bridge now, apparently. “Filming the sport was one of the crucial difficult and fulfilling appearing experiences of my profession,” Page stated. “The story’s wealthy narrative and emotional depth supply us a unbelievable basis. We wish to create a novel imaginative and prescient of the characters and their journeys that resonates with followers and newcomers.”
What function Quantic Dream will play within the manufacturing of the Beyond: Two Souls present, if any, is not clear, however studio founder David Cage stated he is “completely thrilled to collaborate once more with Elliot Page on this challenge.”
“I used to be blown away by his appearing efficiency within the recreation, and I couldn’t consider anybody else to inform this story with the identical ardour on one other medium,” Cage stated. “Beyond: Two Souls is a really particular recreation for thousands and thousands of gamers around the globe who have been moved by the story of Jodie and Aiden, and their journey in life and past. I do know that Elliot has all of the expertise and intuition to make it one thing actually distinctive on TV.”
There was a time when tv or movie variations of videogames have been DOA by default, however issues have modified in recent times as exhibits like The Witcher, The Last of Us, Fallout, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Arcane have launched to essential acclaim and business success. There are nonetheless loads of stinkers on the market like Borderlands (effectively, perhaps not fairly like Borderlands, as a result of hoo boy) however the level is that it is not secure to dismiss these items out of hand. Beyond: Two Souls earned reward for its story and appearing, and it is not unreasonable to anticipate that can carry over to a TV present, which in contrast to the sport will flip fully on its story and appearing.
There’s presently no indication as to when Beyond: Two Souls will flip up in your TV: The Deadline report says the collection is now in “early growth.”
