Please go follow her and retweet.'īack in April Eurogamer asked Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere about Ellie and her striking resemblance to Ellen Page - the actress the French studio had signed to play Jodie Holmes in Beyond. Still, that didn't stop Page from voicing her displeasure on Reddit over the weekend, saying: 'I guess I should be flattered that they ripped off my likeness, but I am actually acting in a video game called Beyond Two Souls, so it was not appreciated.'Īfter Page's Reddit outburst, Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann tweeted: 'Ellie from The Last of Us was perfectly played by No one could've done a better job. We want our characters to stand on their own two feet.' And when we see the reactions we're like, OK, we don't like that. 'We hear what people are saying - we didn't realise that ourselves, because we just try to push for the characters that we want. Straley said the suggestion that Ellie looked like Page came as a surprise to the Santa Monica developer - and not even a pleasant one. 'We don't know what's going on with other games.'

'We didn't even know what was going on with that,' Straley told us. The redesigned Ellie as she appears in the released game.īoth games are published by Sony - The Last of Us by Sony Computer Entertainment America, and Beyond by the European branch. Naughty Dog has said that it's a 'complete coincidence' that the studio changed the appearance of Ellie in The Last of Us after she was said to resemble Ellen Page - and before the actress was confirmed as the star of Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls. 'And we really want to respect Ashley for the great performance that she's giving us.' 'We went a little bit younger, and we think that we got a little bit more Ashley inside of there, which we like,' game director Bruce Straley told Eurogamer at E3 2012. In May 2012 Naughty Dog announced it had redesigned her so she more closely resembled the actor that plays her: Ashley Johnson. The Last of Us' Ellie as she was originally designed. When The Last of Us' Ellie was revealed observers remarked that she looked similar to Inception and Juno star Page. Actress Ellen Page has accused Naughty Dog of ripping off her likeness for PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us.

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