Fans of Michael Fassbender’s “David” in the 2012 sci-fi/thriller Prometheus can rest assured that he will be back in Prometheus 2, which director Ridley Scott confirms to Deadline will begin filming in February. The original ended with Fassbender in the role of a talking head…literally.
Scott tells the site, “…Fassbender will do this one with me, and it’s meant to start production in February. I’m in prep, now. I’ll either shoot in Aussie, or here.”
Scott also admitted that the plot of the first film was a bit too much and that the next film will continue Dr. Elizabeth Shaw’s original mission of finding the Engineer’s home planet. “You can either say, leave the first film alone and jump ahead, but you can’t because it ends on too specific a plot sentence as she says, I want to go where they came from, I don’t want to go back to where I came from. I thought the subtext of that film was a bit florid and grandiose, but it asks a good question: who created us?”
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