Michael Fassbender

Made films the shows talk about.

Wikidata Q57147: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to The Killer, which ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More credits them on.

Counted as actor. The films the hosts said they acted in, which the two lists below run through too: Inglourious Basterds (2009); Haywire (2011); Prometheus (2012); Macbeth (2015); Steve Jobs (2015); Assassin's Creed (2016); Alien: Covenant (2017); Dark Phoenix (2019); Next Goal Wins (2019); The Killer (2023); 12 Years a Slave; Harry Hole; The Light Between Oceans; X-Men films.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

The Killer (graphic novel) (1998): 3 lines

  1. lineage (adaptation) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: interviews (Fincher 'gave some interviewers')). Fincher told interviewers he was adapting a French graphic novel about an assassin that he had always liked.
    “he gave some interviewers, like, we're working on this Chinatown thing, and then he was like, I'm also playing with adapting this French graphic novel about the assassin that I've always liked.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:27:27 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (adaptation scope) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The film takes almost everything from the first 200-odd pages of the comic; the series ran on to 2018.
    “it feels like everything from the movie is basically taken from the 1st 200 some odd pages”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:12:09 · Griffin Newman (0.50 sure it was them)
  3. unmapped (adapted from) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: The Killer (graphic novel) ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). Paramount acquired the graphic novel in 2007; the film is Fincher's latest.
    “In 2007, Paramount acquires the rights to some little graphic novel called The Killer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Social Network (Ad-Free) · 0:18:42 · David Sims (0.50 sure it was them)

Aliens (1986): 2 lines

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The shoulder-mounted GoPro cameras are carried over from the Marines in Aliens.
    “which the Marines all have in aliens”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:40:52 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Aliens ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The loader and airlock set piece homages the power loader fight in Aliens.
    “But something about this feels closer to the power loader fight.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:55:53 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Prometheus (2012): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. people (casting origin) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: Prometheus ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later.
    “I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (lineage) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Andrew Kevin Walker: 1 line

  1. unmapped (idea credit) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: Andrew Kevin Walker ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so). Fincher credits Walker with the contemporary consumerist and technology angle of the film.
    “Walker with the sort of like contemporary consumerist angle that this movie has, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:47:20 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)

Back to the Future Part II (1989): 1 line

  1. craft (craft) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: Back to the Future Part II ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The double-Fassbender effect is an old trick established by Zemeckis in Back to the Future II.
    “once again, shit established by Zameckis and back to the future too.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:09:38 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Haywire (2011): 1 line, within their own work

  1. people (casting origin) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: Haywire ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher cited Haywire, with Prometheus, as the Fassbender movies that made him cast him.
    “He said it was Prometheus and Haywire, which makes sense.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:17:06 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Jean-Pierre Melville: 1 line

  1. theme (genre ancestry) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: Jean-Pierre Melville ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The sparse expressionless killer film riffs on Melville, Kurosawa samurai movies and Walter Hill's The Driver.
    “This is a Melville movie, this is a Curasawa samurai movie. This is all that stuff, right? This is the Walter Hill, the driver movie.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:08:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

Rear Window (1954): 1 line

  1. lineage (homage) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: Rear Window ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The Paris hit sequence is a clear homage built on watching rooms across the street.
    “it is a kind of rear window monkey. You know, it is like an attempt to recreate the across the street path, vision of what is happening in rooms in another building, and clear homage to that film.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 0:20:19 · Sean Fennessey (0.70 sure it was them)

The Cable Guy (1996): 1 line

  1. lineage (callback joke) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: The Cable Guy ⇒ The Killer (the host's read). The TV-character aliases gag was already a joke in The Cable Guy (50s characters there, 70s and 80s here).
    “that was a joke of the cable guy just to give credit where it's to.”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Killer’ Is Cold-Blooded Genius. And Something More · 1:22:52 · Adam Nayman (0.70 sure it was them)

The Martian (2015): 1 line

  1. industry (industry) · through Alien: Covenant (2017), which they acted in: The Martian ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). The Martian's success gave Scott leverage to make an odder Alien film.
    “I forgot that the previous film to this is the Martian”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:19:20 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

The Social Network (2010): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Steve Jobs (2015), which they acted in: The Social Network ⇒ Steve Jobs (the host's read). Steve Jobs is called a worthy sequel to The Social Network on big tech and innovation.
    “I think this is in many ways a worthy sequel to the social network”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:56:04 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

The Killer (2023): 2 lines, within their own work

  1. people (casting origin) · through Prometheus (2012), which they acted in: Prometheus ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher said at the Q&A that seeing Prometheus made him note Fassbender as a good sociopath for later.
    “I go to see Prometheus and I go, hmm, sociopath.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:31:01 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. people (casting origin) · through Haywire (2011), which they acted in: Haywire ⇒ The Killer (the maker said so: the Q and A at the screening). Fincher cited Haywire, with Prometheus, as the Fassbender movies that made him cast him.
    “He said it was Prometheus and Haywire, which makes sense.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:17:06 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)

Alien: Covenant (2017): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (lineage) · through Prometheus (2012), which they acted in: Prometheus ⇒ Alien: Covenant (the host's read). Covenant is half the Prometheus sequel Scott wanted and half a concession to a more normal Alien movie.
    “this is half, like Ridley Scott doing the Prometheus sequel he wanted to do and half”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:06:57 · Griffin Newman (0.40 sure it was them)

Jackie Brown (1997): 1 line

  1. lineage (lineage) · through The Killer (2023), which they acted in: The Killer ⇒ Jackie Brown (the host's read). Jackie Brown has a monologue about The Killer, showing Woo's aesthetic was known to Western audiences.
    “Jackie Brown has a whole monologue about the killer.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich (Ad-Free) · 0:33:35 · David Sims (0.35 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Acting (25) everyone in acting

Other (1) everyone in other

What was said about them, by kind

career (1)

  1. career (career): Michael Fassbender → Inglourious Basterds. Fassbender is nearly funny only in Basterds (as the English officer parody) and Steve Jobs.
    “he's kind of playing like this great parody of the the Colonel Blimp”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:29:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

people (4)

  1. people (cast): Assassin's Creed → Michael Fassbender. Assassin's Creed starred Michael Fassbender, cited as a grown-up game movie.
    “Yeah, Michael Fastbender was in that?”
    The Big Picture · ‘A Minecraft Movie’ Is the Most Important Movie of the Year So Far. And These Flicks Are the Best … · 0:21:57 · Sean Fennessey (0.50 sure it was them)
  2. people (people): Steve Jobs → Michael Fassbender. Fassbender gives a menacing, dark performance that makes Jobs's failures off-putting.
    “there was something very menacing about his performance”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:57:40 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  3. people (casting verdict): Michael Fassbender → Next Goal Wins. Fassbender was the worst match for Taika humor in Next Goal Wins.
    “he's like the worst match.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:53:04 · unknown (host) (0.30 sure it was them)
  4. people (people): Michael Fassbender → Assassin's Creed. Hooded Fassbender evokes Assassin's Creed; the Animus is the machine he's put in there.
    “hood hooded Fastbender right now, major Assassin's Creed energy.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 0:24:09 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

unmapped (2)

  1. unmapped (shared work ethic): Michael Fassbender → Daniel Craig. Fincher says Fassbender is like Daniel Craig: both keep asking for more takes.
    “He says, Fincher says he's like Daniel Craig.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:55:43 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  2. unmapped (star type): James Mason → Michael Fassbender. Mason's smile has the shark-like edge of Michael Fassbender's.
    “He's got that Michael Fastbender thing where when he smiles, you're like, oh.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Lolita with Fran Hoepfner (Ad-Free) · 1:13:26 · unknown (0.00 sure it was them)

what-if (2)

  1. what-if (what-if): Michael Fassbender → Watchmen. Fassbender would have been a better Ozymandias than Matthew Goode.
    “he would have been a better Ozzie Mandius.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:17:06 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  2. what-if (what-if): Michael Fassbender → Multiplicity. A third Fassbender would have been like Multiplicity, each with a different gimmick.
    “Multiplicity, right?”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Alien: Covenant · 1:45:36 · unknown (0.30 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Michael Fassbender: Fassbender's Wikipedia page now says actor and race car driver.
    “Michael Fassbender is just his Wikipedia page now as his actor and race car driver.”
    The Big Picture · Aaron Sorkin Top 5s and ‘The Trial of the Chicago 7’ · 0:57:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.60 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Michael Fassbender: Fincher keeps card catalogs of actors by type; he filed Fassbender as romantic lead, sociopath after Prometheus.
    “He has these card catalogs and he said, like, romantic lead, sociopath.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:30:44 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  3. fun, about Michael Fassbender: Halfway through the shoot Fassbender told Fincher he finally got it: precision modeling, holding a head position for long takes.
    “And Fastbender went precision modeling.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 0:55:01 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)
  4. fun, about Michael Fassbender: Fincher says he cited two Fassbender movies from 11 years earlier, and jokes about his own speed.
    “Fincher was like, yeah, 2 movies from 11 years ago.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · The Killer with Marie Bardi (Ad-Free) · 1:17:18 · David Sims (0.55 sure it was them)