It's quite possible that Elliot Page is the only person who's thought about 2013 video game Beyond: Two Souls in several years.
Now that the freshly reinvigorated video-game-to-TV-and-movies pipeline has schlorped up some of gaming’s biggest brands—as with the billion-dollar—it’s now clearly having to look a little further afield for name-brand adaptation materials. How else can we explain, a game whose only major selling points are that it starred Page and co-star Willem Dafoe, at a time when it was relatively rare for A-list talent to go slumming it in games?was more interesting in theory than in actual play.
” Also like most Quantic Dreams games, it got bemused eyerolls from critics, who praised its ambition but dinged its execution and weirdly hokey plot.People liked Page and Dafoe though, which might explain why Page is now turning this thing into a TV show. Page, whose Pageboy Productions has acquired the rights to the franchise, sounds a lot warmer on the game now, saying in a statement that, “Filming the game was one of the most challenging and fulfilling acting experiences of my career.
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