Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe's psychological thriller may soon be getting a director's cut, but the work in question is not a film; it's the PlayStation 3 game Beyond: Two Souls. Two German retail sites posted a PlayStation 4 game titled Beyond: Two Souls Director's Cut listed as being released this year.
The two retail sites, Alcom and World of Games, have since removed the listings from their websites.
This isn't the first time this rumor has been spread on the Internet. A page on gaming forum NeoGAF links to images that indicate a programmer was working on the director's cut of Beyond: Two Souls in April 2014.
Beyond: Two Souls is a cinematic thriller developed by Quantic Dream. It stars Ellen Page as Jodie Holmes, a girl who has a connection to an entity named Aiden. Working with Aiden, Jodie is able to move and break objects or possess people. At a young age, she is taken in by a scientist working for the U.S. government, Nathan Dawkins, who is played by Willem Dafoe. The game is told in a nonlinear fashion, jumping around to different times in Jodie's life.
The game was written and directed by David Cage, the CEO of Quantic Dream. Through the use of motion capture, Beyond: Two Souls features more emotionally expressive characters compared to most video games. And due to the realistic graphics portraying the actors, feels more akin to a film with interactive elements. Those same graphics could be enhanced on the PlayStation 4.
A PlayStation 4-version of Beyond would not be unheard of. Sony published the original game and might be keen to publish an update for the company's latest console. Later this month, Sony is publishing The Last of Us Remastered, another updated PlayStation 3 game. A few other updated titles have been released for PlayStation 4, including Sony's Flower and Square Enix's Tomb Raider. Updates of Metro: Last Light and Grand Theft Auto V have also been announced for PlayStation 4 and are scheduled to be published later this year.
The original PlayStation 3 version of Beyond: Two Souls was released in October 2013, just prior to the PlayStation 4 launch that November.
