Michael Fassbender (Prometheus, X-Men: First Class) will star and produce Assassin’s Creed based on the hit Ubisoft video game according to The Hollywood Reporter Heat Vision. The in-demand actor will play Desmond Miles, a man descended from a long line of assassins. The story takes place in modern and ancient times as Miles faces the Knights Templar.
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After seeing Prometheus a second time I went back to a casting dream for a possible Avengers sequel. Seeing Michael Fassbender and Noomi Rapace together a second time made be think how perfect they would be as the Vision and the Scarlet Witch. This is just the musing of a geek – I have no knowledge and assume Fassbender would not want to play another android.
If you have the Vision then you must have Hank Pym, Janet Van Dyne and Ultron – who created the Vision.
I posted before how both actresses who played The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo could play Wanda on-screen in an X-Men: First Class (Rooney Mara)sequel or Avengers (Rapace) sequel.
Again – I have no power or knowledge and will probably enjoy what Marvel decides but it’s fun to dream and play casting director!
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The Summer of 2014 mutates! The sequel to X-Men: First Class is now scheduled for July 18, 2014 according to Box Office Mojo. While discussing Prometheus Michael Fassbender revealed he’s been talking with writer Simon Kinberg about the script which will continue revealing the early days of Magneto and Professor X. Most of the original cast including Jennifer Lawrence as Mystique are all set to return as well as director Matthew Vaughn.
I’ve been posting about how much I hope to see Magneto’s children (Scarlet Witch, Quicksilver, Polaris) appear but I wonder if we might see more of Professor Xavier’s past – Gabrielle Haller, his lost love from his days in Israel, who gave him a son named David. The son became the villain Legion – known for his multiple personalities and mutant powers.
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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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The Prometheus official movie site reveals 6 new photos. This one above shows Michael Fassbender at the android David in the Space Jockey’s chair looking at a star map…to Earth?
And this new featurette has the stars and Ridley Scott discussing the theme of humanity’s origin and perhaps giving away a little more of the plot. Take a look:
Thanks to MTV. And I’m excited to see my Entertainment Weekly featuring new phots of the cast.
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A new Prometheus featurette is burning up the geek net! The cast is praising Sir Ridley Scott and we hear from the acclaimed director himself on his return to science fiction. The look in Michael Fassbender’s eyes as David the android is fascinating and chilling as he appears to sit the pilot seat of the “Space Jockey” and discovers the starmap. We’ve seen the scene in the trailer before but in this featurette we see Noomi Rapace in the white bikini looking outfit before what looks like a nasty fate with an alien of some kind.
I particularly enjoyed David’s quote “a superior species, no doubt.”
Thanks to Screen Rant.
A truly chilling performance by Michael Fassbender as the android David in a new faux commercial from Weyland Industries, the sinister company in Prometheus and the Alien films. Take a look – even if you think you’ve seen this, keep watching – especially the Rorschach looking symbols peppered in the spot.
Thanks to Digital Spy. Prometheus opens June 8. As I watch this I can’t help but think of Ian Holm telling the crew of the Nostromo the company’s orders in Alien.
As I watch this – I can’t help but also think of how perfect Michael Fassbender would be at the Vision in The Avengers.
Michael Fassbender plays an android named David in Ridley Scott’s (it has Alien DNA) Prometheus. Viral marketing (under the guise of a commercial from Weyland Industries) revealed David is a product of Weyland, the company that connects Alien and Prometheus.
Pocket-lint makes a great point: You might assume that Fassbender based his performance on Ash (played by Ian Holm) in Alien or Bishop (Lance Henricksen) in Aliens. But the actor says he looked to another Ridley Scott directed sci-fi classic and…Olympic medalist Greg Louganis?
“I watched Blade Runner,” said Fassbender during a Q&A in London that Pocket-lint attended. “I watched The Servant with Dirk Bogarde. Laurence of Arabia. The Man Who Fell to Earth. And Greg Louganis.
“It’s the way he moved. When I was younger, his weird walk made me laugh.”
“It’s very centred,” he continued. “There’s an economy of movement. I thought that would work out.”
Thanks to Pocket-Lint.com for the story. I just discovered this site – very cool, great layout!
This story makes me picture Fassbender uttering that famous line, “If you could see what I’ve seen with your eyes.”