'Juno' star Ellen Page says video game 'ripped off' her likeness

Ellen Page doesn't appreciate having her likeness appropriated in the recent zombie video game "The Last of Us," the actress revealed in a Reddit AMA on Sunday.

If you've played Sony and Naughty Dog's new masterpiece of a zombie video game "The Last of Us," you might have noticed that one of the main characters, a 14-year-old girl named Ellie, bears an uncanny resemblance to "Juno" and "Inception" star Ellen Page. Apparently, Page herself noticed the similarity too. And as she explained in a Reddit AMA this past Sunday, she's not happy about it.

"I guess I should be flattered that they [Naughty Dog] ripped off my likeness," she wrote in response to a question about her feelings toward "The Last of Us" and her similarities with the character Ellie. "But I am actually acting in a video game called Beyond: Two Souls, so it was not appreciated."
The game that Page mentioned she is acting in is another highly anticipated title that Sony is producing exclusively for the PlayStation 3 console. Due out in early October, "Beyond: Two Souls" is also set to be released just four months after "The Last of Us" first appeared on the PS3.

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Actress Ellen Page arrives at the premiere of IFC Midnight's 'Super' at the Egyptian Theatre on March 21, 2011 in Hollywood, California.

While this doesn't necessarily mean that the "Beyond" developer, the French studio Quantic Dream, is necessarily in cahoots with its fellow PS3-exclusive developer Naughty Dog, the movie buff in me has to wonder if it's really possible thatnobody at Sony could have noticed that the company was publishing two games featuring remarkably similar-looking (and sounding) female protagonists right at the end of its current-generation console's life-span.

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