hatmoza said:
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I respectfully disagree. Ellie looking like Ellen Page won't make me less likely to buy Beyond: Two Souls. Ellie looking like Ellen Page makes me go "oh yeah, I remember her...that chick from Juno. Isn't she ironically in a game coming up?" As far as I'm concerned, it's a publicity bump for her, and Beyond if she just lets it happen. When people started clamoring for Fillon to play Nathan Drake in a potential movie, I looked him up and checked out Firefly...I may not have done that otherwise.
That being said, the whole "likeness" thing is tough to settle on. I could see if they cashed in on a trademark catchphrase or something that only Ellen owns, but they made a digital character that looks a lot like her...I'm sure if we started a "video game characters who look like celebrities" thread, we'd get a lot of similarities. There's also the concept of scale. It really only makes a difference if people bought the game simply because they thought she was in it, which I doubt anyone did. If that were the case, yeah, she has a beef because she lost out on some royalties. I don't think that's the case though because people bought The Last of Us due to a 95 metacritic score and the reputation of Naughty Dog, especially their work on Uncharted, and Ellen Page isn't a big enough star to command that kind of draw on her own. Disclaimer - I really enjoy Ellen Page as an actress and have liked her in the things I've seen. This isn't a knock on her, just an objective view of the situation.
Remember the college athletes suing EA?
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.312050-Judge-EA-Can-Profit-from-College-Players-Likeness
