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Ellen Page Claims Naughty Dog "Ripped Off" her Likeness

Rely on Horror: People have been comparing the likeness of The Last Of Us’s Elle character to Hollywood actress Ellen Page ever since the original reveal trailer. Well recently Ellen Page was part of a reddit Ask Me Anything thread and was asked to comment on Naughty Dog apparently drawing from her own likeness and putting it into the character of Ellie.

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Cam9774371d ago

The similarity is shocking! It's like ND copied off Ellen directly, however, I'll let this slide as TLOU was a flipping masterpiece.

xHeavYx4371d ago

Ellie looked a lot more similar when they first announced TLOU, then Beyond was announced and ND changed Ellie a bit

badboy7764371d ago

1.She's just trying to get Paid.

2.Or she's just jealous that Ashley Johnson got the job over her.

Dead_Cell4371d ago

If she's trying to get paid she's got a good footing to go off of, as if ND used her likeness to such a level without their consent they can expect a bloody big lawsuit.

Dunpeal4371d ago

totally agreed. they did change her to look more like ashley johnson. you can see the resemblance, puckered lips and all

BISHOP-BRASIL4371d ago

Actually, I've been wondering for quite some time if they ever tried to get Ellen Page to voice Ellie and she declines as already working on another game, only to later be revealed it was Beyond, and yeah, they decided to change her and came up with younger Ellie, that would be totally funny and awkward!

-Alpha4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

^ She's not "trying to get paid", she was simply answering a question from Reddit, it's evident that many people think Ellen actually played Ellie.

Dee_914371d ago

I dont think she overreacted .. I think the responses are though

Ezz20134371d ago

when i saw the headline
i thought that was big deal

then i saw her comments on Reddit
she was chill and very cool
and not mad at all
and also the fact that she is getting paid from sony on making another ps3 exclusive

nothing to see here for me

Winter47th4371d ago

If Ellie was Ellen Page I wouldn't might letting the clickers eat her. She's SO.ANNOYING.

eyeDEVOUR4371d ago

Your exactly right...the first announcements of the game was a complete Replica of her...they've slowly changed it tho

pixelsword4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

Heh, I don't even know who she is, but calling the character "Elle" ain't helping...

Mutant-Spud4371d ago

Bah! Elle looks more like my 14 year old daughter Josie than she does 26 year old Ellen Page, Naughty Dog you may send my royalty cheques to....

SITH4371d ago

Trying to get paid? She has a net worth of 14 million. If anything naughty dog owes her because they clearly ripped her likeness. http://www.celebritynetwort...

KingKevo4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

Neil Druckmann (the Creative Director of TLoU) even said that they didn't see similarities but when people said they saw them they changed Ellie's character a lot for Ellie to be even more like Ashley Johnson (the actress who portrays Ellie).

I'm referencing this podcast btw (it contains heavy SPOILERS): http://epdaily.tv/all/type-...
Listen to it from 33:40.

Azurite4371d ago

Ellie was changed months before Beyond: Two Souls was announced at E3 2012.

zeee4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

Aham! No comments :)

k2d4371d ago

*Brings popcorn*

I love how this is being blown out of proportion, lol!

Ellen Page learned something new about the Internet today.. >:D

Ju4371d ago

I think that's a little bit of a weird reaction from Ellen Page. She could simply have said it's not her. Being in a video game she must have known that somebody else was mo-caped for that role. And instead she put attention onto her own character instead of giving Ashley (the real actress) the credit she deserves for playing the 14 year old Elle. Well played Page.

superkidcupid134371d ago

they both look the same
both have almost the same name
both act amazingly...but when TLOU and B2S was first announced i thought ellen was in both games...shaaaahhh-keeeeer....

Braid4370d ago

I'm sorry, I LOVE Last of Us. It's the defining game of the current gaming generation, no doubt about that.

But whoever thinks that Ellie from LoU does NOT look like Ellen Page is either completely blind or... partially blind.

justastranger104370d ago

Sony and Naughty Dog should compensate ellen Paige for this instead of trying to rip her off.

N4g_null4370d ago

Welcome to the movies. Better start selling box office tickets.

bigrob9044370d ago

yea at first it was an exact replica, but they changed it after beyond two souls was announced. now she doesn't look like her so i don't see the problem.

user55757084370d ago

lol yea...cause she would be all smiley and cute in a post apocalyptic world

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Mr_Nuts4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

If you've seen Super with her in, the similarities between Ellie and Ellen are more noticeable

She had her moments in the film which seemed like something Ellie would do....except the parts in the film where she went all psycho when killing someone

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

ZodTheRipper4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

Ellie really could be a young Ellen Page, the similarities are pretty obvious. But I don't think that ND have taken her as a model while creating Ellie... if they did, they really did a great job bringing her character to life in TLOU.

ginsunuva4371d ago

Watch Juno.

Ellie and Ellen have almost the exact same clothing, hair, and most importantly, the confident, swearing, witty character that is almost identical!

thezeldadoth4371d ago

obviously they used her likeness. when beyond two souls was announced they went back and changed her to look less like ellen page. plus, ellie...ellen...ellie....ellen

Parapraxis4370d ago

How idiotic are the people who disagreed. This is LITERALLY where she said it.

PurpHerbison4371d ago

ND could be ripping off of any young white girl.

Temporary4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

someone said it. ^^^ whats the big deal again...?

DAS6924371d ago

Dakota Fanning says hey. ;)

fr0sty4371d ago

It not only looks like her, they even used an altered version of her name. They likely wanted her to be involved but Quantic Dream's role probably interested her more. Just speculation.

Persistantthug4370d ago (Edited 4370d ago )

Probably.

I mean, even though Naughty Dog has a higher pedigree than Quantic Dream....Quantic Dream sort of specializes in that Mo Cap stuff, and even has a movie credit to their name.

So I can see how/why she might be more interested in doing Beyond with QD more than TLOU with ND.

wastedcells4371d ago

Personally I don't care. Never crossed my mind as I was playing. I'm sure there is a Joel look alike out there somewhere too.

Just finished TLOU and its one of the best games ever made. Every gamer needs to play this game at some point. Hope they do a PS 4 remake for the Xbox fans switching over next gen. Or use the cloud to make it playable on ps4.

Picnic4371d ago

You don't care but no-one should care that you don't care! It's not you whose very similar likeness has been used! Such similarities are unlikely to be entirely accidental when you're talking about a videogames studio who will relatively savvy on the film stars of today.

rainslacker4371d ago

Ellen Page looks a lot like many other girls out there. There really isn't much to her appearance that stands out. This was even more true when she was Ellie's age. Ellie in TLOU looks like a typical teen girl.

This is kind of true of most children around Ellie's age. It isn't until a bit later in life when truly defining features stand out more.

Although, I will admit that the similarities are there.

CommonSense4371d ago

It was hardly a masterpiece. And it's not a surprise that they ripped off her likeness, they rip everything off. Their entire this-gen lineup was a series of cliches and been-there-done-thats.

There is just a group of people that want to believe ND are great developers, and therefore they shower praise on everything they make...even before they play it.

ASBO-54371d ago

Awww, does someone need a cookie? Or maybe its just that someones mommy & daddy didn't buy him a PS3 and is sour about never getting to play the best this gen has to offer.

fr0sty4371d ago

Yeah, that "group" of people must be quite large, considering their games were among the most critically acclaimed of the generation.

trouble_bubble4371d ago

@commonsense
Whoa. At ease soldier. A collection of your recent quotes:

"It is mind boggling how immature and hypocritical most of you are"

"The garbage double standard expressed by the community on N4G never gets old"

"Where do people come up with this trash? Stop being perpetually 6 years old"

"THIS is the intelligence level of the average Sony drone."

"This is why N4G is such a joke now. You people spout the dumbest stuff without researching anything"

"You people are so pathetic. Corporate worship is despicable"

"All these idiots have to do is say "sony" or "playstation" and the rest of you idiots "agree" and +bubbles. "

So angryz1! Jeremy spoke in class today?

irepbtown4371d ago

Well, if receiving 10/10's from the likes of Edge is being a rip off, I wan't to know what you regard to as a 'Masterpiece'...

Call of Duty? Fifa?

monkey nuts4370d ago

Common sense is not so common.

CommonSense4370d ago

There isn't a single reply to my comment that wasn't completely predictable.

I'd just like to point out that GTA4 was a HUGE game in terms of ratings...but i'll bet a least half of you don't think it deserved those accolades. I don't know why the industry has a love affair with certain developers...i accept that they do...doesn't mean it's going to manipulate my perspective. They do the same thing with games made by Ken Levine. They do it with a few developers.

Also, I don't think too many games are masterpieces. Half Life 2 comes to mind. The original StarCraft. Red Dead Redemption was pretty incredible. The first Portal was also pretty damn good. I'm sure there are others, but trying to make a point on n4g that goes against sony (and especially ND) is like trying to discuss economics with liberals, it is utterly pointless. which is why non-sony fanboys have migrated away from N4G and are now on reddit and 4chan.

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showtimefolks4371d ago

When game was announced she was in it basically but than ND changed it

TLOU is a masterpiece

mrmarx4371d ago

she didnt get any money for it thats the issue

GribbleGrunger4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

If Naughty Dog have characters in The Last Of Us that look NOTHING like the actor that played them (Joel for instance), why on earth would they deliberately make a character look like Ellen Page? It doesn't make sense. ND design characters to look right for the part. I don't even think that the character in the game looks like Ellen Page at all, but I will concede that Ellen Page has quite a generic face and that a lot of Hollywood stars look similar to her.

Are you telling me you would confuse these two people:

https://encrypted-tbn1.gsta...

matgrowcott4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

It doesn't matter how similar you personally find them. By law, all that it matters is that people think that she's in it.

And you only need to look at that Reddit AMA to see that there are people that up until yesterday thought that Ellen Page was in The Last of Us.

I don't think she'll sue Sony/Naughty Dog - she wouldn't want to complicate things with Beyond, I guess - but if she did it'd be open and shut.

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aquamala4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

old promo pics look just like her. less so after the re-design

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

HarryMasonHerpderp4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

Yeah I don't see the problem here since Naughty Dog changed the look of Ellie quite a while back. If they had stuck with the original design then fair enough but they didn't.
sooo?

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ChrisW4371d ago

@Cam977

You'd let it slide because it's a Sony Exclusive...

redcar1214371d ago

it is her she needs to sue them

stage884371d ago

I think it didn't help that Ellie was quite quirky eg. the jokes and was also quite tomboyish which fits Ellen Paige's characteristics.

BallsEye4371d ago

noticed it first time I saw the gameplay.

Gardenia4371d ago

It is pretty obvious that she was an inspiration for the character, not only the looks but her attitude as well. Also after Beyond's first reveal, Naughty Dog changed Ellie's looks because she looked too much like Jodie

GDDR6_20144371d ago

She's not in the credits? That's crazy

shadowst174371d ago

Most artists who model take reference from real people, Ellen page would probably be a good reference for how they wanted Ellie to look like, of course the artist won't right out copy Ellen Page's look but definitely incorporate elements of her.

RedHawkX4370d ago

i want to kiss ellen paige she looks cute cant wait for beyond 2 souls.

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ifritAlkhemyst4371d ago

What's the big deal. I'd be flattered. But celebrities often don't think like that. Everything comes at a price with them, even compliments.

SegaGamer4371d ago

Exactly, i don't get why celebs need to make a big deal out of everything.

admiralvic4371d ago

Considering people pointing out how similar they looked since the first trailer and how the names are fairly similar, it's not that shocking. While it might be flattering in this setting, if I was someone of note I wouldn't let just anyone do whatever with my likeness.

Also lets be fair here, it also comes off as fairly lazy.

ifritAlkhemyst4371d ago

I don't understand why it's lazy. They saw inspiration in Ellen Page and so modeled Ellie after her, even going so far as to give her a similar name.

sway_z4371d ago

I wish there was an outbreak of intelligence to cure the dumb people that visit this site :)

ZombieNinjaPanda4371d ago

@ifritAlk;aljkd;fa

It's lazy and illegal to use someone's likeness without their consent. I'm not saying that's what happened here, but I'm just saying.

Erimgard4371d ago

It's like she said...she cares because she's actually lending her voice, likeness, and motion captured facial animations to another video game (Beyond: Two Souls), as part of a contracted agreement in which they approached her for permission. They did it the 'right' way, and she doesn't want another game stealing its thunder without even asking.

TXIDarkAvenger4371d ago

The thing is, I'm assuming she wants to be recognized for staring in the game Beyond Two Souls instead of Last of Us which she was not apart of.

DarthJay4371d ago

The big deal is that companies are trying to make money off of their likeness. Their product is their image. Themselves. They have every right to be upset. If someone wanted to draw a picture of them and hang it on a wall, that is a compliment. Drawing the picture and mass producing it for sale is a different animal all together.

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SpiralTear4371d ago

Why is she complaining? It's not like she's not going to be in another game on the same console in the next few months.

TXIDarkAvenger4371d ago (Edited 4371d ago )

She seems cool about it, so obviously she's not angry. She just wants to be recognized for a game she is staring in which Beyond: Two Souls.

Karpetburnz4371d ago

It's not really a big deal, but I would probably be annoyed if everyone thought I played a character when I didn't. Ellie did look a lot like Ellen page in the first trailer but they did change her a little. When I played through the game I never thought of Ellen. IMO Ellie has her own look about her. And you can tell she's a lot younger.

shadowst174371d ago

Shes not complaining, people are just exaggerating her comment to sound like she was trying to take a stab at naughty dog to the stage she would sue. It doesn't help that a bunch of trolls keep tweeting her saying how they loved her in Last of us.

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Neil Druckmann Reveals He’s Working on an Unannounced Game at Naughty Dog

Neil Druckmann, the creative director of The Last of Us, is working on a new, unannounced game at Naughty Dog.

RaidenBlack23d ago

I know they've expertise in third person games.
But given the lack there of in PS catalog, I'd want the other project to be a narrative first person ND game.
Look, there are lots of 3rd person Sony games in variety of flavors. And ND is already doing intergalactic. And since they're pretty expert at gameplay and tech wise in whatever they do, they can easily venture a new genre and ship a first person game/shooter.

VenomUK23d ago

Hopefully the lead character is a boss babe who will challenge the patriarchy.

RaidenBlack22d ago

So, judging from the dislikes, hardcore Sony fans here don't like first person games, anymore?

arkard22d ago

Let naughty dog do what they are great at, 3rd person games

crazyCoconuts22d ago

I don't really have a big opinion on first vs third person perspective. That's one of the least important things to me when rating how much I like a game

Flewid63822d ago

Sounds horrible. The downvotes are right on this one.

badz14922d ago

I actually hate 1st person. very hard to associate with a character you only see their hands most of the time.

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OtterX23d ago

funny thing is with failures like Concord and soon to be Marathon, Factions could have been Sony's guaranteed huge success with a shooter! I don't ever play online shooters anymore, but I would have come out of shooter retirement for a new Factions game.

RaidenBlack22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

{ coming from the above thread }
So PS Fellas hate first person games now? (Understandable)
But praise Killzone and Resistance series, as well?
And hope for a return of first party first person games? ~ but from where? insomniac is deep in marvel territory, guerilla is deep in aloy territory ... suckerP are not as big to undertake that change + dedicated to Ghost series
The only options are ND and Santa Monica, who are rumoured to be involved in parallel projects. ~ so take your pick.
And the other 'new' studios at Sony are not that hot right now with knee deep in live service fiasco

darthv7223d ago

...Way of the Warrior 2: Electric Boogaloo

Amplitude22d ago

It’d be cool if they bought the Parappa licence and made Parappa 3 that’d be the real good timeline

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Lightning7723d ago

Wait I thought they cancelled a game? Or did they announce another project?

https://wccftech.com/naught...

pwnmaster300023d ago (Edited 23d ago )

I’m assuming it’s the unannounced game in the title you posted.

“Naughty Dog Reportedly Canceled a Single Player Game This Year, But Another Unannounced Game Is Still in the Works“

Lightning7722d ago

OK I gotcha. That makes sense.

jznrpg22d ago

Devs cancel games all the time early stages if it doesn’t turn out the way they envisioned it. We just don’t hear about every one of them.

Notellin22d ago

Yeah only a narcissist like Druckmann would announce a game this early that has a 99% chance of being cancelled.

badz14922d ago

so a 2028 release at the soonest

Lightning7722d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Some speculate it could be Uncharted spin off. It's already 3 years in production so yeah 2028 maybe 2027 at the absolute earliest but most likely 28 release.

Also to add. kojimas next game that's not OD is said to be 5 to 6 years out for PS. That metal gear inspired game. These games are just too far off it seems.

pwnmaster300023d ago

This dude is busy.
So who is running intergalactic?

Knushwood Butt23d ago

'We have several directors on Intergalactic. I work with two game directors: Matthew Gallant and Kurt Margenau, [and] I have a co-writer in Clair Carré.'

pwnmaster300022d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Okay you got me, I skimmed the article and video .
Thanks lol

vTuro2423d ago

Cuckmann is going to be Naughty Dog's downfall.

itBourne22d ago

Going to be? The damage is already done lol.

Flewid63822d ago

Sunlight is good for you, I promise. lol

vTuro2422d ago

Damage has been done but it's not too late yet if they dump him now. Probably won't happen though. It's sad, honestly. We'll see what happens after Intergalactic. That game is going to have a huge impact one way or another.

StormSnooper22d ago (Edited 22d ago )

Yes because they didn’t make some of the greatest games. Right, we all just agree to live in your fantasy from now on.

Flewid63822d ago

yall say that about ever developer and then they end up becoming more successful lol

mkis00722d ago

Downfall? If anything he is a huge reason they are on the map! A few apes don't like the material hasn't stopped his games from being massive hits.

DarXyde22d ago

I have grievances with Druckmann, but he does deserve some benefit of the doubt. He's been in crucial roles at the company through all of their successes.

Maybe wait and see?

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StormSnooper23d ago

Interesting. So they are working on more than we knew.

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Ex-Naughty Dog Dev Says Resident Evil 4 Inspired Uncharted and Many More Action Games

Former Naughty Dog dev says Resident Evil 4 inspired Unchartted and even Gears of War, particularly the over-the-shoulder camera view.

CrimsonWing6924d ago

It revolutionized third-person shooters, in a genius way that gives you full control of aiming.

CrimsonWing6923d ago

No, I mean RE4. Like the whole snap to over-shoulder and precision aiming was what I meant.

I won’t deny Winback does pave the way in some respect. But it’s not the same at all.

InUrFoxHole24d ago

Both are great series. That's awesome

Samonuske24d ago

I thought this was common knowledge. Resident Evil Revolutionised over the shoulder aiming in 3rd person shooters/action games

italiangamer24d ago (Edited 24d ago )

Influenced basically every third person action game made after it, GTA uses the over the shoulder perspective when shooting since the 4th installment, Red Dead Redemption 1 & 2 too and the Batman Arkham series has the over the shoulder perspective as the main camera throughout the whole game series.
Obviously there are a ton more examples but you get the point 🗿.

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