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I'm looking for the option of "Oh god, I hope not".
Sorry if I ruffle any feathers, but Three Souls was David's worst work if you ask me. It's a whole bunch of unconnected scenes he desperately wanted to put to screen, and a threadbare plot to loosely tie them together, with a total Cypher of a main character needed to make it all work. Which is a shame, because I love Ellen Page.
Now, she's a rebellious teen!
Now she's a badass CIA agent single-handedly taking down entire governments!
Now she's in the desert doing native American spirit magic!

But that's kind of David's problem: He makes really good scenes. Short, contained scenes. They're really compelling. But then he tries to tie them together in a larger narrative and everything sort of... sucks. I think he sort of writes in reverse in that way, going by Aristotle's six elements of play. I think he needs to focus on writing a compelling series of events first, and only then thinking about how he's going to dress the scenes up with action and acting and style.
As he writes at the moment, it's akin to crafting really nice muscles, in seperate rooms from eachother, then bringing them all together and awkwardly trying to stuff a skeleton inside this flesh after the fact.

I loved Kara (and I think for the reasons I just cited, that he should stick to short film) but I'm kind of dreading Detroit a bit. I love robots, cyborgs, questions of inteligence and conciousness, etc. But if it's all about "robots are people too because they have emotions!" I think it's going to fall flat due to David's very shallow grasp on "emotionz!".
But I heard a while back that he was working on a comedy. Does anyone else remember that?
I'd actually like to see what a Quantic Dream comedy looks like?
These interactive films don't need to be so serious all the time. Until Dawn was really schlocky and that was basically the best game Quantic Dream never made.