Elliot Web page Will Convey His Video Sport Historical past to a Past: Two Souls Sequence

As with final yr, video game adaptations like Fallout and Arcane stay on the prime of the popular culture zeitgeist and that’s not showing any sings of slowing in 2025. Now, actor Elliot Web page is becoming a member of the fray with a TV adaptation of his personal for his choice-driven psychological journey recreation, Beyond: Two Souls.

In response to Deadline, Web page’s manufacturing firm, Pageboy, acquired the rights from French recreation developer Quantic Dream (Heavy Rain, Detroit: Become Human) to develop the tv collection. Past: Two Souls, initially launched on the PlayStation 3, follows a lady named Jodie Holmes raised in a secret authorities facility as a result of her uncommon connection to a ghost-like entity named Aiden. Utilizing Aiden, Jodie is tasked with finishing a collection of navy espionage missions whereas additionally attempting to reclaim her independence in her day-to-day life on the run from the power that formed her to be a weapon. Along with Web page within the starring function, the sport additionally featured Willem Dafoe as  Nathan Dawkins, a Physician taking good care of Jodie whereas looking for to grasp Aiden’s connection to the afterlife.

“Filming the sport was one of the vital difficult and fulfilling appearing experiences of my profession,” Web page informed the commerce. “The story’s wealthy narrative and emotional depth provide us a incredible basis. We wish to create a novel imaginative and prescient of the characters and their journeys that resonates with followers and newcomers.”

(For context: Past: Two Souls launched in 2013, earlier than Web page came out as a trans man in 2020. The next trailer consists of interstitials with Web page’s earlier identify.)

Consistent with the sport’s model, Deadline reviews that Web page’s Past: Two Souls TV collection will undertake an analogous non-linear storytelling perspective.

“This adaptation will honor the sport’s legacy whereas inviting contemporary views,” Matt Jordan Smith, Pageboy’s head of growth and manufacturing, informed Deadline. “Delving into questions of survival and the way split-second choices can alter not simply our lives, however the lives of others, are key to telling the story.”

Quantic Dream’s controversial director and writer David Cage additionally cosigned Web page’s Past: Two Souls TV adaptation.

“We’re completely thrilled to collaborate once more with Elliot Web page on this challenge,” Cage mentioned. “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. Past: Two Souls is a really particular recreation for thousands and thousands of gamers all over the world 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.”

Little is understood about whether or not Web page will serve solely as a showrunner for the collection or if he can even seem on-screen. In the meanwhile, all we all know is that the collection is in early growth. Fingers crossed, Dafoe will discover time in his busy schedule to make Robert Eggers motion pictures and grace the present together with his presence.

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