Prometheus (2012)

[Allstar]

Checkmate Whedon.

I think you wanted to say that in The Avengers thread.

Chris checkmated everyone.

[Durden]

Before yesterday Prometheus had almost all my attention, now i cant get excited for anything except that damn trailer. lol

[schrutey69]

If Prometheus is PG-13 is will NOT see it in theaters, no mather how good it'll be.
You simply cannot make a pg-13 horror movie, destroys the purpose of horror in the first place.

[mchekhov]

a shit load of interesting bits about David 8....people still dont wanna believe me that he is the main character? Why are they releasing all this shit about him? He's the face of promo...believe me, he is THE character the story revolves around. It's his journey.



The character of David represents PROMETHEUS’s “company man.” An androgynous android with personality defects, David is the eyes and ears of the Weyland Corporation that funds the Prometheus mission. Explains Ridley Scott: “If I had a giant piece of metal [like the Prometheus], I wouldn’t send it off into deep space with only computers monitoring it. I don’t care how cleverly they work. I’d have a man on board, and the man would be a company man as Ash was in ALIEN.”

“He’s not quite one of us,” confirms Executive Producer Michael Ellenberg. “There’s a bit of Rutger Hauer and a bit of Ian Holm, but this is a very different spin, too. He’s very smart and sophisticated, but also very young and if the beings they find are beyond good and evil, he may not fully understand good and evil. He’s working his way through it in terms of his own consciousness and deciding whether he has an agenda or not.”

There’s no big reveal for David’s corporate agenda, as there was for Ash in ALIEN. Instead, he lays his cards right on the table. “From the get-go you know exactly what he’s doing when he’s doing it,” says Scott. “He doesn’t even get bored, and works around that in his own world. He can switch off if he wants and switch back on. He’s the housekeeper.”

Fassbender says David is unlike anything that has come before in the ALIEN universe, to which PROMETHEUS shares only strands of DNA rather than direct links. “I didn’t really look at any of the previous films,” says Fassbender. “Once I got the part I didn’t re-watch the old ALIEN films. I watched BLADE RUNNER, actually. I’m just trying to make a very sort of ambiguous sort of character with this guy. And very sexually ambivalent; sort of almost androgynous. We’ve been taking references from David Bowie and Peter O’Toole in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. This is the kind of guy that, when he says something, the audience are like, ‘Is he for real or is he taking the piss here?’”

Adds Ellenberg: “Ridley’s modelled him after a number of classic actors. And while everyone’s been asleep for two years, David’s been awake, so he’s had time to study our scientists’ research and come into his own. Over the course of the movie he thinks he understands what he wants out of life and I think he’s very surprised by what he sees.”

His uncertainty reflects on the crew of the Prometheus, who are all fearful of David’s motives on board. “They’re just really not sure about this guy,” Fassbender continues. “There’s a kind of resentment against robots, and so they kind of treat him a little bit like an outcast. Then the audience are like, ‘Does this guy have feelings? He’s a robot. Is there jealousy there? Is there envy? Do his feelings get hurt by the way people talk to him?”

An interesting aspect of David’s character, in connection with PROMETHEUS’s grand themes about questioning the origin of humanity, is that as an android, David is well aware of who created him. “He even asks Holloway, ‘Why did you make me?’” reveals director Ridley Scott. “And he says, ‘Because we could.’ So David responds, ‘How would you feel if your maker said that about you?’ Does David have feelings? You fucking bet he has feelings.”

Fassbender says he’s been imbuing the character with all the unrestrained emotion the script will allow. “I’m making him a very sort of vain and sort of patronising kind of character,” he explains. “There’s a massive ego within him, I’ve realised, because it’s open knowledge to him that he’s far more advanced than his human counterparts. In a response to their non-acceptance of him he develops a bit of a haughty sort of attitude around them. He likes to be right all the time.”

His reference material extends beyond film, too. “I sort of took my walk from Greg Louganis. He was a high diver in I think the early ‘80s and I remember watching him when I was a boy. I always remember he used to walk in a certain way to the edge of the high board. Little things like that just might help.”

One element of David that didn’t make the final character was an Afrikaans accent, that Fassbender abandoned on day one. “There were a lot of different ideas that I had in terms of what I was going to do with his voice and we tried different things,” Fassbender remembers. “At one point I wanted to do South African, so I was doing one take and doing my Afrikaans accent and Ridley was like, ‘Okay, it’s kind of interesting.’ He’s like, ‘Do one in the Afrikaans and then do one in English.’ Then in the end we said, ‘Okay, we’ll stick with the English. Let’s just get rid of that idea!’”

Michael Fassbender - a self-described “sociable person”

On the eve of his face becoming even more famous with a lead role in Ridley Scott’s forthcoming sci-fi blockbuster Prometheus, Fassbender tells Esquire magazine about enjoying a good drink, dancing, AC/DC being a secret hangover cure, being seduced by the trapping of fame and his next challenge as a scriptwriter. Here are some titbits…

On his love of socialising:
“I like to go out. I wouldn’t say I don’t enjoy a drink. As I say, I’m a sociable person.”

On his love of dancing:
“I like to dance. Ha! You know, I enjoy myself when I go out. When we were in Berlin and I went out with my parents, we were out till three in the morning, we were all out dancing.”

On his secret hangover cure:
“I still listen to Slayer, man! I just put them on the other day, still listen to Metallica. AC/DC brilliant…If you’re a little bit hungover, put on AC/DC, it’s like there’s no room for [the hangover] any more, the anxiety’s all gone.”

On now having to consider his behaviour since becoming famous:
“The thing is I don’t like to filter my behaviour, but I have a feeling that might be the case now…I don’t want to be in the newspapers. I just want to keep what I do on screen and that’s it.”

On being seduced by the trappings of fame:
“It would be wrong of me to say that I don’t get seduced by certain things. That things don’t become tempting.”

On his temptations:
“Well, you know, sort of, money! How much money does one need? Let’s start with that, that’s a pretty good one. Greed, things like that. Vanity, believing the hype. You have to keep an eye on those things.”

On keeping grounded:
“There’s another side of me that’s very simple. I keep my lifestyle pretty simple and my possessions are pretty simple.”

On his self-imposed hiatus:
“You have to see it clearly as looking after yourself. There is the danger of burning out here and getting lost and just becoming uninterested.”

On his next challenge as a scriptwriter:
“The next thing is to develop, make your own stories with writers, gather a pool of creative people and develop stuff. So it’s not the fact that I’m waiting for someone else to hire me or I’m waiting for a really good script to arrive, I’m actually trying to make that script.”

[GothamGirl]

a shit load of interesting bits about David 8....people still dont wanna believe me that he is the main character? Why are they releasing all this shit about him? He's the face of promo...believe me, he is THE character the story revolves around. It's his journey.

Awesome post Talli.

I will never be not entertained by Fassy. I feel like he's one of those one in a million actors.

[Vader182]

He's the face of the marketing because he's by far the most recognizable actor in the cast. He's been constantly in the papers/media. Not that I've read the script or no much about it, but I've thought it pretty clear Noomi's the main character. Or have I misunderstood?

-Vader

[RIFA]

He's the face of the marketing because he's by far the most recognizable actor in the cast. He's been constantly in the papers/media. Not that I've read the script or no much about it, but I've thought it pretty clear Noomi's the main character. Or have I misunderstood?

-Vader

talli lives in his own world. Noomi's character is the main character as the story revolves around her... David will play a huge role but that's like saying the main character in LOTR is Aragorn lol.

[Allstar]

He's the face of the marketing because he's by far the most recognizable actor in the cast.-Vader

That is definitely inaccurate.

[Vader182]

Is it? Charlize Theron is obviously a bigger and more famous member of the cast, but not in terms of box office appeal or anything like that, and she's playing a fairly minor role in full context of the film most likely.

-Vader

[Allstar]

Is it? Charlize Theron is obviously a bigger and more famous member of the cast, but not in terms of box office appeal or anything like that, and she's playing a fairly minor role in full context of the film most likely.

-Vader

Theron has more box office appeal and is way more famous than Fassbender at the moment. As of right now Fassy has not proven to have any box office appeal besides being in X-Men which was a guaranteed success and nothing to do with him.