Michael Fassbender is creepy brilliant in the trailers for Prometheus. The actor is revealing the inspirations for this performance as “David” to GQ. He cites David Bowie, Lawrence of Arabia and Ridley Scott suggested he watch The Servant with Dirk Bogarde.
Fassbender reveals his favorite Ridley Scott films including Blade Runner -wouldn’t he make an amazing new version of Roy Batty for a remake? Here’s a link to the video interview. If you haven’t seen Fassbender as David in the faux commercial for the android here it is:
Prometheus is out June 8th
Back to David Bowie…I wonder which of Bowie’s ‘alien’ characters he refers to as his inspiration? Ziggy Stardust? I’m sure it’s Nicholas Roeg’s The Man Who Fell To Earth. This was Bowie’s first film role as an alien who comes to earth to bring back water to his drought stricked planet. The alien creates many inventions and forms a huge financial empire before…well I don’t want to give it away.
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