Michael Fassbender delivered one of his most memorable performances as the hyper-intelligent android David in in Ridley Scott’s Alien prequel Prometheus. Inspired less by previous android characters in the Alien franchise and more by 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL-9000 and the replicants of Blade Runner, David’s all-encompassing intelligence and human-like self-awareness led him to develop insecurity and jealousy toward the humans he served aboard the titular vessel.
Fassbender is set to return as David in 2017’s Alien: Covenant, and he’s expected to retain many of the same human qualities that were both a blessing and a curse for him in Prometheus. But in ...
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