He's been long desired for the project and now Sir. Ridley Scott has finally got his man - the German/Irish actor Michael Fassbender has tonight officially joined the cast of his science fiction film Prometheus, which incidentally was also today given a highly lucrative June 8th 2012 release date from it's previous March 2012 opening. Fassbender will play an android in the film in what we presume will be a character similar to Ian Holm's Ash in the original Alien and there's certainly something cold, detached and untrustworthy about Fassbender's eyes and demeanor that excites for the role. The soon to be Magneto joins lead Noomi Rapace as the protagonist Elizabeth Shaw - with Charlize Theron still in talks for a secondary female part. Ironically, Theron and Fassbender were due to star together in Universal's fairytale actioner Snow White and the Huntsmen, where Theron was to play the Evil Queen and Fassbender, the co-titled Huntsman. Fassbender, who was second choice to Batman 3's Bane Tom Hardy for that movie, dropped out a little while ago, probably around the same time Ridley Scott first called him about this movie. We guess Theron will now need to decide which of the two films she herself will want to shoot this Spring. Prometheus then was announced as an original sci-fi project from 20th Century Fox two weeks ago but one thats still based on the same Alien prequel Damon Lindelof script, same basic idea as mapped out by Jon Spaihts and itll be a similar film to Ridley Scott's 1979 film but it wont have any connections at all to the franchise. Scott said two weeks ago;
While Alien was indeed the jumping off point for this project, out of the creative process evolved a new, grand mythology and universe in which this original story takes place. The keen fan will recognize strands of Aliens DNA, so to speak, but the ideas tackled in this film are unique, large and provocative,
We are big fans of Fassbender at OWF, the actor really coming to our attention in Hunger and Inglourious Basterds, before starring in a couple of stinkers (Centurion, Jonah Hex). We expect much more from his 2011 slate though with his co-leading role in X-Men: First Class & A Dangerous Method and his appearance in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire to come.
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He's been long desired for the project and now Sir. Ridley Scott has finally got his man - the German/Irish actor Michael Fassbender has tonight officially joined the cast of his science fiction film Prometheus, which incidentally was also today given a highly lucrative June 8th 2012 release date from it's previous March 2012 opening. Fassbender will play an android in the film in what we presume will be a character similar to Ian Holm's Ash in the original Alien and there's certainly something cold, detached and untrustworthy about Fassbender's eyes and demeanor that excites for the role. The soon to be Magneto joins lead Noomi Rapace as the protagonist Elizabeth Shaw - with Charlize Theron still in talks for a secondary female part. Ironically, Theron and Fassbender were due to star together in Universal's fairytale actioner Snow White and the Huntsmen, where Theron was to play the Evil Queen and Fassbender, the co-titled Huntsman. Fassbender, who was second choice to Batman 3's Bane Tom Hardy for that movie, dropped out a little while ago, probably around the same time Ridley Scott first called him about this movie. We guess Theron will now need to decide which of the two films she herself will want to shoot this Spring. 