The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a bit of wider right this moment with a Deadline report revealing {that a} present primarily based on Quantic Dream’s action-adventure Past: Two Souls is now in improvement at Elliot Web page’s Pageboy Productions.
Web page, you may recall, starred in Past: Two Souls, a “psychological motion thriller” a couple of lady whose highly effective telepathic skills lead her into an online of intrigue and conspiracies. It was properly obtained 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 attempting to make ten utterly totally different movies without delay, 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 cause, that it is virtually unattainable to get invested within the story. And when Jodie visits a smart previous Native American within the New Mexico desert, properly… let’s simply say ‘write what you already know’ is a bit of recommendation Cage ought to have taken to coronary heart.
“There is a SWAT group too, after all, and a gratuitous bathe scene.”
That bathe scene turned out to be a difficulty for causes other than its gratuitousness: Web page’s character seems nude within the scene, and whereas the character mannequin is not totally seen within the sport, some enterprising jerk who presumably had a PS3 devkit used a “free digicam” mode to create and add photographs to the web. Web page did not truly get bare for the sport—the 3D mannequin was made by an artist—however nonetheless reportedly explored authorized motion in opposition to Sony over the pictures after efforts to work issues out with Quantic Dream did not go wherever. Sony finally issued takedown notices to websites internet hosting the pictures, and the potential authorized motion doesn’t seem to have been pursued additional.
All water below the bridge now, apparently. “Filming the sport was probably the most difficult and fulfilling appearing experiences of my profession,” Web page stated. “The story’s wealthy narrative and emotional depth supply us a improbable basis. We wish to create a singular 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 Past: Two Souls present, if any, is not clear, however studio founder David Cage stated he is “completely thrilled to collaborate once more with Elliot Web page on this venture.”
“I used to be blown away by his appearing efficiency within the sport, and I couldn’t consider anybody else to inform this story with the identical ardour on one other medium,” Cage stated. “Past: Two Souls is a really particular sport for hundreds of thousands of gamers world wide who had 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 diversifications of videogames had been DOA by default, however issues have modified lately as exhibits like The Witcher, The Final of Us, Fallout, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and Arcane have launched to important acclaim and industrial success. There are nonetheless loads of stinkers on the market like Borderlands (properly, perhaps not fairly like Borderlands, as a result of hoo boy) however the level is that it is now not secure to dismiss this stuff out of hand. Past: Two Souls earned reward for its story and appearing, and it isn’t unreasonable to count on that can carry over to a TV present, which in contrast to the sport will flip completely on its story and appearing.
There’s presently no indication as to when Past: Two Souls will flip up in your TV: The Deadline report says the sequence is now in “early improvement.”
