Alan Wake is involved with the events happening in the plot.
The game makes various allusions to Alan Wake and various other content related to him, like the Old Gods of Asgard. The fact that Jack keeps running into these throughout the story can't be a coincidence. In Control, it's deliberately implied that Alan used the power of Cauldron Lake to will everything there into existence, or at least is controlling things to a certain level as a part of a gambit to free himself from the Dark Place. This theory posits that everything happening in Quantum Break is being controlled to some extent by Alan. Possibly his attempt at utilizing the concept of time and time-travel to create a method of escape. The trailer to Return in the tent, the scribbles of his work on the classroom chalkboard, Alan's books appearing in various places across the game, all of these remnants of Alan are signs of his presence throughout the story.Alternatively, Quantum Break is a film Thomas Zane made/will make in the Dark Place, possibly with help from Alan or Dr. Darling
Featuring such all-star casting as... whoever he happened to have on hand at the time, such as:- Tim Breaker as Jack Joyce (the fact that his name is one letter away from "Time Breaker" will actually be what gives Zane the idea for the plot and Jack's powers)
- Jesse Faden (star of hit action film Swift Platform) as Beth Wilder
- Dylan Faden as Nick Marsters
- Warlin Door as Martin Hatch (jokes will be made about how his appearance doesn't quite match Zane's mental image of the character, but close enough)
- Other characters who don't have a Remedyverse counterpart (yet) will be played by other victims of Cauldron Lake and/or FBC agents/researchers Jesse brings into the Dark Place with her.
Also, at the beginning of Alan Wake 1, Zane quotes a line from one of his poems to Alan: "Beyond the lake he called home, lies a deeper, darker ocean green, where waves are both wilder and more serene". No points for guessing where he pulled his character names from.
