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Ellen Page says Naughty Dog "ripped off" her likeness

Juno and Inception star says similarities between her and The Last of Us' Ellie were "not appreciated."

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Inception star Ellen Page has said developer Naughty Dog "ripped off" her likeness for The Last of Us.

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On Reddit, Page said the initial similarities between herself and The Last of Us' Ellie were "not appreciated" because she was also cast as Jodie Holmes in Beyond: Two Souls, which is due out for PlayStation 3 in October 2013.

"I guess I should be flattered that they ripped off my likeness," said Page, "but I am actually acting in a videogame called Beyond Two Souls, so it was not appreciated."

After initial comments regarding Ellie's resemblance to Page, Naughty Dog altered the design of the character to more closely resemble her voice actress Ashley Johnson.

Responding to Page's comments, Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann took to Twitter to praise the work of of Johnson. "Ellie from The Last of Us was perfectly played by @TheVulcanSalute. No one could've done a better job. Please go follow her and retweet."

PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us launched two weeks ago. For more information, check out GameSpot's review.

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Wasn't happy with David Beckham. Told him he was stealing my look, trying to sue him, I'm not delusional, just a fucking muppet, but hey, I'm right? right?.. nah.

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@EL_Bomberdor Why is everyone talking about suing people? Has Ellen Page even begun to imply that she'd file a lawsuit?

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@mojoboy31 @EL_Bomberdor Um, because people always discuss their plans to sue on reddit? What could be a better legal maneuver!

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@mojoboy31 @EL_Bomberdor because they're pleb retards, with nothing going on in their live's, except video games and knocking down mailboxes, so they want to rant about celebrities pissing them off. LOLOL

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@RS13 You're correct. It did indeed get an 8.0. Thanks for the correction.

I still don't see why they need to flame GS about it. GS has consistently underscored PS Exclusives for years.

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@mojoboy31 @Justin_G Actually, it got an 8.0. But other than that, you're right.

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@Justin_G I wouldn't go that far... It just seems like they're obsessed with Last Of Us. And can't handle any negative word about it. They're flaming GS because 8.5 isn't high enough. Nuff said...

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Hey babe Doppelganger exist what if it's a rip off someone else :P Maybe she look like someone else lol!


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I saw 3 guys who look really like me and not even in my family so what!

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@Alexmillette What are the odds your doppelganger's name is basically the same as yours?

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@mojoboy31 @Alexmillette When I was at high school there was a guy with the same full name lol! I had problem at school because of that.

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@Alexmillette @mojoboy31 Oh, yeah, and did an artist create him, and name him after you too?

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@mojoboy31 @Alexmillette And the guy was looking like me.

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I just want all the women to know

Brad Pitt ripped off my likeness

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@EmperorSupreme

Yeah me too. But I'm fine with it... lol

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Would you like to role play *as* her though?

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@talkcasual she is playing a character... um... you dumbass.

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Dear Ellen Page, what a great idea to shit where you eat. Pissing me off with your self centered bitchy attitude is a great way to make me buy Beyond

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@talkcasual If you refuse to buy Beyond because she's self-centered and bitchy, quantic dream will have lost exactly 1 customer because Ellen Page is self-centered and bitchy.

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your point? that was what I'm saying.

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I have heard people who live where she does, who knew her, say she is a right little bitch and hate her...

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Quick, someone call Willem Dafoe - Quantic Dream has a character that looks and sounds just like him in Beyond: Two Souls! Oh wait...

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Next up on Gaming News: Tom Selleck sues Naughty Dog because Sully ripped off his mustache.

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@Apathy4Marmite No article in the history of the world has said less about Ellen Page's plans to sue anybody than this article.

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And let the hate commence.

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Really interesting how TLOU makes the hate flow through me this easily

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@talkcasual lol

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The only bad thing about Beyond Two Souls is it's god damn Ellen Page. Go away you whiny bitch, nobody wants to play with you

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FFS people are making a mountain out of a molehill here.

The character did resemble Ellen Page and a lot of people thought she was playing Ellie back before they changed the character's appearance. I doubt Page follows this stuff very closely and was referring to the old design, I imagine it was annoying since she was working on Beyond:Two Souls and people thought she was working on TLoU.

https://twitter.com/EllenPage/status/348961670833512449


Since the major game sites are chronic clickbaiters too lazy. Her's an old article on the matter.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-09-changes-to-the-last-of-us-ellie-and-announcement-of-ellen-page-in-beyond-are-complete-coincidence


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I think she is dog ugly and I hated the movie where she was pregnant and looked even more hideous. I hope she sues naughty dog for using such a dog ass ugly actors likeness. God I hate this actress. Who is the jackass at naughty dog that has a hard on for her anyway? BARF!

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o_O Who is Ellen Page? O_o

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@666_Laventine uhh... *searches on Google*


Nobody!

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I was playing Skyrim recently, just walking, and I'm not bullshitting when I say that I saw a rock the looked roughly the same as a rock I own in my front yard.

Either Bethesda patches that shit, or else I'll rightfully claim 10 percent of every copy of Skyrim sold.

This is god-damn ludicrous.

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I already think Naughty Dog did enough tweaking her model to get rid of some of the likeness. She originally did look just like her, but after seeing her in game, I can definitely see a reasonable difference.

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If she's complaining about the character shown beside her in GameSpot's article...no, she doesn't look anything like that character. The jaw looks a lot different, and both the shape and colour of the eyes are different, and the game character has pale freckled skin. But hey, they both have brown hair in a similar, though not uncommon, style.

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@Angel_Belial It's apparently something she's gotten a lot and probably is still only aware of the original design of the character. A lot of people thought Ellie resembled Ellen Page to where they thought she was involved, even people who worked for Naughty Dog noticed it after they finished the trailer. Then they went back and change her face along with their making the character younger.


This one sentence is getting ridiculously blown out of proportion.

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@PHOENIXZERO @Angel_Belial Ahh okay, thanks - I wasn't following the game's development so it's news to me. GS should show the original character design as well, just so that's clearer.

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How about **** you Ellen Page?

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who does ellen degenerous think she is!!! ellie looks nothing like her!!! goooooooshhh!!

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If Ellen Page wasn't in Beyond or if the two games were separated by some more time this would be a non-issue. Are they similar, yep, just like the majority of people as a whole.

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@boom_f15 And naming her Ellie? You think they're both just coincidences?

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@mojoboy31 @boom_f15 Yep. Ask yourself, why would ND want to confuse people by "ripping off" the likeness of an actress who is in a competitors game? It serves no purpose but to cause confusion which goes against a successful marketing strategy (just as Microsoft).

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@boom_f15 @mojoboy31 I don't believe in coincidence.

They would do it, to capitalize off of recognition. I'm sure I'm not the only person that started paying more attention to Last Of Us after seeing Ellen Page was involved (which she really wasn't)

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These 1 minute adds are so fucking ridiculous

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Ellie could have looked like lady gaga, ND made a contender for the game of the year! Well i can say that the new Lara Croft looks a bit like Jessica Alba, they have to look similar to us, so it makes the game more engaging. So what does she want, money? attention? or a slap?

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She should also say that every human anatomy textbook stole her likeness as well when they show a picture of every generic caucasian male

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@ravenbeast Its funny how she even goes out of her way to point out that a 9yr old vid game character looks like her.. embarrasing if u ask me

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@spindie @ravenbeast Ellie's 14, and my god are "u" guys dumb. Hope this is just satire/trolling.

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@spindie @ravenbeast tell me about it , some of these so called STARs actually believe that: the F@$%ing world really revolves around them ....

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The original game name was supposed to be called The adventures of Ellen page but it got changed at the last second

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