Shawn Ashmore
Jack Joyce
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Quantum Break: With Shawn Ashmore, Aidan Gillen, Patrick Heusinger, Marshall Allman. Bridging gaming and live-action, the thriller looks into aspect the villains of the game and the dramatic backstory as it unfolds.
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- 2016-04-05
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"From the creators of Max Payne and Alan Wake comes Quantum Break. A revolutionary entertainment experience that blurs the line between television and gaming. With Quantum Break, Remedy Games deliv...—Xbox One Site"Monarch Solutions"
When Jack Joyce's transport goes missing, Monarch Security operative and Martin Hatch's "golden boy", Liam Burke is sent out to recover Joyce before he can cause more problems. However, when he discovers Beth Wilder was responsible for Joyce's escape, Burke finds himself tumbling down a path ugly truths about Monarch's preparations for the End of Time with a procedure known as the Lifeboat Protocol. Desperate to protect his wife, Emily Burke, from the End of Time, Liam works with Beth to gain...
"Prisoner"
With the security of Monarch in question, Paul Serene works to reassure the corporation's employees of his empire's control with the Monarch gala. However, he is slowly losing the fight against his Chronon Syndrome, which has become resistant against Sofia Amaral's treatments. Elsewhere, Liam plots his escape after he is brought to Gull Islandwith a recently apprehended Jack Joyce, who willingly surrendered himself to Monarch security. Paul or Hatch may confront Jack on his conviction fight a...
"Deception"
Fiona and Liam attempt to escape Monarch Security after they're betrayed Charlie Wincott. Charlie reports to Martin Hatch on the situation that transpired in Henry Kim's lab with Liam and Fiona. Hatch plants the seeds of doubt against Paul Serene when he explains that Paul's power and control has made him arrogant and willing to leave whoever he considers a non-essential to the End of Time. Hatch sends Charlie to remove the CFRfrom Paul's control and prepares to move forward with his plans to...
Production
1. Main article: Quantum Break (video game)#Casting and Motion Capture Much of the production for the television series was handled in the West Coast of the United States by Lifeboat Productions. The narrative of the series was not finalized until the development team working on the game solidified the story and visual direction. The final rewrite of the series did not take place until a month before principal photography. Once rewrites were complete, filming officially began in February of 2...
Announcement and promotion
The television series was announced alongside the game during E3 2013. The first teaser trailer containing footage from the "Guided Experience" demo and "QUEST" episode, was revealed May 21, 2013. Quantum Breakwas promoted as a "video game and television hybrid that mashes together real world actors and traditional filmmaking with computer graphics and virtual settings in the same fictional universe". Quantum Break was announced during Microsoft Studio's promotion of Xbox Entertainment Studio...
Finalized Format and Release
The length of the episodes in Quantum Break is estimated to be no longer than a half hour long. Each episode of the series can be accessed at the end of every act in the game, prefaced with "previously" and "next time" bumpers.“You’ll unlock the live-action episode at the end of the [gameplay] episode," explained Oskari Hakkinen (former head of Remedy Entertainment's franchise development), "but you can choose when you jump into that." The original intention for the television series was to h...
The reception to Quantum Break’s live-action television series has been mixed. General praise for the show was given toward the performances of its more seasoned cast members (such as Lance Reddick and Adian Gillen), writing and pacing; while similarly, criticisms of the show lay with it's focus characters (Marshall Allman's Charlie Wincott and Pat...
Prior to the release of the game, Sam Lake hoped to produce a "second season" of Quantum Break if both the series and video game was successful.[note 6] Despite it's general positive-to-mixed reviews, there were reports of low sales following it's first week in the United Kingdom and United States. Four months after its release, Microsoft stated th...
Quantum Break is an action-adventure video game played from a third-person perspective. Players play as Jack Joyce, who has time manipulation powers in a world where time stutters, making everything freeze except Joyce.
1. Top-rated. S1.E1 ∙ Monarch Solutions. Tue, Apr 5, 2016. After the decision of whether to kill or use victims as a public relations statement, Paul Serene is tactical as in to finding Jack Joyce and capturing him, while other employees are already turning on each other, and are facing Monarch Solutions as a dangerous threat. 7.5/10 (102) Rate.
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Mar 29, 2016 · Quantum Break, Microsoft's hybrid shooter/live-action TV show, launches April 5 for Xbox One and Windows 10. Here's what you need to know about the game and the show. What if you could...
Apr 1, 2016 · Consisting of five gameplay acts interspersed with four breakneck-paced episodes of a live-action TV-style show, Quantum Break opens - as so many great sci-fi stories do - with a...
