The company made its name with titles Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, both of which were lauded for their cinematic qualities. Parisian games company Quantic Dream was co-founded by David Cage and Guillaume de Fondaumière in 1997. We started shooting a couple of weeks ago so it’s early days but the movie’s going to be huge.’ Page stars in thriller The East, out in Britain this month, and she’s reprising the role of Kitty Pryde for X-Men: Days Of The Future Past, due in July next year. ‘We’re shooting in Montreal right now,’ she says. Musician she might not be but busy actress she is. OK, I sang in Juno but it was a two-chord song so it was pretty easy. I wish I was a talented musician.’ ‘That’s about the extent of my guitar skills, though. ‘I suggested it and then I played it, and then David liked it, and then we used it,’ she laughs. You can’t help but be moved when Jodie borrows a busker’s guitar to earn some money of her own with a wonderful rendition of Beck’s Lost Cause. There are heart-warming moments in the game too, though. I’m a bit of a wuss with stuff like that, which is funny because I make movies and I should be like: “Ellen, there’s a boom over that person’s head.”’ ‘It can’t be too scary or I will have bedroom incidents. ‘I’m fascinated to see if people feel emotionally attached and compelled in these intense moments of Jodie’s life to make choices from those feelings.’ĭespite this, Page admits she struggles with watching anything too harrowing. ‘Why would you not want to explore that format of storytelling?’ she says. Should video games feature topics such as suicide? The game isn’t out until October but anticipation is already intense.Īt Tribeca, a long line of patiently waiting fans are treated to a 35-minute trailer, including a scene where a homeless Jodie contemplates throwing herself off a building. That love-hate feeling of being different is something universal.’Ĭritics are calling Page’s performance the most convincing digital acting display so far, while also praising Beyond: Two Souls for its photorealism. So I think it’s going to be a game a lot of people connect with – dealing with this element of herself that Jodie can’t live with but can’t live without. ‘A lot of people will relate to feeling like an outsider, feeling misunderstood, not fully seen, lonely, you know. ‘David had written the character so beautifully that I felt deeply connected to her,’ she says. However, she becomes uneasy when I ask for specific examples. Page, who still lives in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she was born, says parts of Jodie’s story mirrored her own upbringing. ‘Wearing the sensors was strange at first – you can’t physically touch your face and I thought: “What if something is emotional and I’m crying?” But in the end it was kind of nice just coming into work and putting on my little suit without having to go through hair and make-up.’ ‘I would go into shoot stuff and have about two seconds to get into the right emotional state,’ she says. For more things to watch that have Stranger Things vibes, see TIME’s list here.Ellen Page out of game mode (Picture: Donald Bowers/Getty Images) So it just proves that everything anyone’s ever done or will ever do will closely resemble some aspect of Stranger Things.īoth the Stranger Things creators and the creators of Beyond Two Souls declined to comment on this story. This game may not fill the Stranger Things-sized holes in everyone’s hearts, and it may never bring Barb back, but it has so many shades of summer’s biggest hit show including a tough young women with the power to break teacups, people and stuff without moving. Linking up with a creature other people are obsessed with. Otherworld that only the young girl is really good at going to. Sensors to keep tabs of young girl’s powerful mind. Totally appropriate relationship with the father figure studying young girl. So to recap: Young girl with shaved head. Like Eleven on the Netflix show, Jodie wears sensors on her head when she’s being studied, Firestarter-style. “Papa” (Matthew Modine) in Stranger Things. The guy totally loses his crackers like Dr. Speaking of things that run parallel to the things in Stranger Things, in Beyond Two Souls, Willem Dafoe plays the overbearing surrogate dad researcher, Nathan Dawkins over at the Department of Paranormal Activity.
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