Beyond: Two Souls is being made into a TV series by Elliot Page's production company
The videogame-to-TV pipeline grew a little wider today with a Deadline report revealing that a show based on Quantic Dream's action-adventure Beyond: Two Souls is now in development at Elliot Page's Pageboy Productions.
Page, you'll recall, starred in Beyond: Two Souls, a «psychological action thriller» about a girl whose powerful telepathic abilities lead her into a web of intrigue and conspiracies. It was well received when it launched for the PlayStation 3 in 2013, although not without criticism: Former PC Gamer wordsmith Andy Kelly said ahead of the game's years-later release on PC that «it feels like David Cage is trying to make ten completely different films at once, resulting in a confusing jumble of themes and tone.»
«It doesn't know whether it's a supernatural thriller, a coming-of-age teen melodrama, or an action movie,» Kelly wrote in 2019. «It leaps between time periods and genres so wildly, and for so little reason, that it's almost impossible to get invested in the story. And when Jodie visits a wise old Native American in the New Mexico desert, well… let's just say 'write what you know' is a piece of advice Cage should have taken to heart.
»There's a SWAT team too, of course, and a gratuitous shower scene."
That shower scene turned out to be an issue for reasons aside from its gratuitousness: Page's character appears nude in the scene, and while the character model isn't fully visible in the game, some enterprising jerk who presumably had a PS3 devkit used a «free camera» mode to create and upload images to the internet. Page didn't actually get naked for the game—the 3D model was made by an artist—but nonetheless reportedly explored legal action against Sony over the images after efforts to work things out with Quantic Dream didn't go anywhere. Sony eventually issued takedown notices to sites hosting the images, and the potential legal action does not appear to have been pursued further.
All water under the bridge now, apparently. «Filming the game
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