to Michael Fassbender Online, the ultimate online source for everything about the actor Michael Fassbender. You might know Michael from his various projects which include Hex, 300, Hunger and Inglourious Basterds. This fan site is devoted to bringing you the latest information on Michael and his projects, images, media and lots of fun and interactive features. Have a look around and enjoy your stay at the home of the Fassinators! The MFO Crew
Its caring and sharing time here at MFO - with huge thanks to RobPattitude I’ve added this lovely photoshoot from last year’s Cannes film festival to our GALLERY
As well as a couple more shots from the Screen Actors Guild awards, courtesy of Justine at Eli Roth Online….
Along with the rest of the Blood Creek screen captures….
Caps are from the whole movie, so you might want to avoid if you’ve not seen it yet. Or, yah know, if you’ve got a weak stomach. Its a horror movie. What can I tell you?
Okay. I might have gotten slightly over-enthusiastic when capping the opening scene of this movie. But can you blame me?
To see the entire collection, be sure to check out our GALLERY I’ll be adding captures from the rest of the movie very shortly but, for now, I think I’m all screencapped out!
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In addition to the charity drive for Michael’s birthday, we would like to send birthday wishes to Michael from his fans.
We are asking for SHORT and respectful messages, which you can either post to the MFO forum, or email here by Saturday, March 6, 2010. You must be a member to post on the forum.
We will gather them and put them together to be sent to Michael for his birthday on April 2, 2010.
If you have any questions, please post them to MFO forum or to send an email here.
Celebrating Michael . . . Celebrating the Children . . .
Please help us celebrate the April 2nd birthday of the truly gifted and multi-talented Michael Fassbender by donating to the amazing Barretstown a ‘Hole in the Wall Camp’ founded by the late actor Paul Newman, which is located near the Wicklow Mountains Nat’l Park, Ireland.
Donating in Michael’s honor and for the courageous and beautiful children and their families is a gift that is greatly appreciated.
Our goal is to raise funds February 1 through March 15, 2010. Our hope is to do as much as possible to make a difference for the sake of the children and their families. Please help us achieve outstanding success!
Please visit the Barretstown website to see all of the wonderful things they do for the children.
No donation is too small, thank you for your generosity.
On April 2, 2010 names will be randomly drawn for special prizes. Please be sure to include your current email address when you donate. Further details to follow regarding prizes.
Catch a rising star! That’s definitely the sensation watching German-born, Irish-raised Michael Fassbender weave his way through a troubled circle of women as the charming and deceitful Connor in Fish Tank, Andrea Arnold’s compelling study of longing, lust and loss. Fassbender, in a sitdown at the Soho Grand, discusses his big break in Steve McQueen’s Hunger as the suicidal IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (an earlier Subtitles interview with McQueen is available here) and the realism he brought to Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist hit Inglourious Basterds, where he memorably played an English film critic who, while masquerading as a Nazi, fatefully held aloft the wrong three fingers (22 minutes).
As fans, we absolutely love new pictures of Michael. We enjoy sharing them with family, friends, fans and the curious bunch.
As admins, we get a lot of pictures from all over the place, including many directly from the photographers. We ask for special permission to post these pictures in MFO’s gallery. Most of the time, getting special permission from a photographer means that the pictures can only be posted on MFO. If you want to post pictures elsewhere, YOU need to contact the photographer for YOUR own site.
With that being said, we noticed that recent pictures that were given to MFO exclusively are being used on other sites. When that happens, photographers can get upset and close their doors on allowing fan sites to use their pictures. It jeopardizes our relationship with not only that photographer, but other possible photographers.
If you find pictures in the gallery that say “exclusive” , we request that you NOT post these pictures online anywhere else, unless YOU get YOUR OWN permission from the photographer. Posting exclusive pictures from MFO or any other site can be grounds for termination of membership and/or access to the gallery.
Exclusive pictures will now have a watermark on them, which we are sad to use because who wants to ruin a gorgeous picture?
If you have any questions, please contact any of the Administrators on the forum.
As reported earlier, Michael will be in L.A. for reshoots for Jonah Hex towards the end of the month. It’s been reported that 12 pages of script have been added and the lead characters will be filming new scenes with new characters.
Then starting 2 February, Michael will be heading out to Dublin to film Steven Sodenberg’s film, tentatively titled “Knockout”. The film shoot is reported to be between 2-3 weeks.
Congrats to Quentin, Christoph and the cast for winning at last night’s Critic’s Choice awards. Quentin won best screenplay, Christoph won best supporting actor, and the whole cast won for best ensemble. Hope this is more of what’s to come.
The Jan 21, 2010 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a review of Fish Tank, which received an A-, and a small article titled, “Let the Buzz Begin! Michael Fassbender, From Basterds to Fish Tank”. Click picture to enlarge.
A radio podcast with director Andrea Arnold and Michael is available from WNYC. Click here to listen or download.
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Just a reminder that Fish Tank’s US theatrical release starts today in New York at the IFC Center and will continue throughout the US until April. It will also be on On Demand, starting Jan 27 through the end of May, per IFC. For more information, click here.
If you are in the Cleveland area, Francois Ozon’s film, “Angel” will be playing at the The Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque on Sat. Jan 16 and Sun. Jan. 17. For schedules, click here.
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It has been confirmed that Michael did the narration for BBC’s Radio 4’s TV advert for the upcoming radio program “A History of the World in a Hundred Objects”. More information:
BBC Radio 4: Horse
Fallon London has produced two films to promote the BBC’s partnership with The British Museum “A History of the World”, and specifically a Radio 4 series entitled ‘A History of the World in 100 objects’.
Each film tells the stories and history behind a particular object.
The first film features a man jumping for real over a huge half ton fighting bull and tells the story of a ritual performed by men conquering their fear in 1700BC Minoan Crete.
The second film tells the story of a Gold Dinara Coin from 415AD and features a regal horse in its last dying moments of a year-long journey to claim territory for a conquering king.
The films were shot by music promo director WIZ and filmed on location in Spain using horses and trainers from the films ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Kingdom of Heaven’, and a man jumping over several prime fighting bulls weighing well over 600kg each.
For the voiceover on “Bull” Fallon enlisted the help of Oscar and Bafta nominated Michael Fassbender (Hunger, Fishtank, Inglorious Basterds).
“Sometimes it’s quite bizarre to write this stuff down on a page and then a couple of months later be stood on set in the dead of night watching a half naked man running straight at a 600kg bull before jumping clean over it”. Sam Walker, Creative Director
Huffingtonpost.com has posted Michael Fassbender: Catnip to Women by Erica Abeel. Erica talks to both Michael and director Andrea Arnold. Michael talks about Fish Tank, working with Andrea and Katie, and upcoming projects:
EA: Your career has taken off bigtime. What’s coming up?
MF: I’m working with Steven Soderbergh in Dublin on a spy film, where I’m an MI6 operative. I’ve been very lucky.
EA: You’re extremely handsome and gifted. How is that luck?
MF: A lot of gifted people out there, but there’s a large portion of luck … I’m also doing
Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga (”Sin Nombre”). It will be interesting to see what kind of angle he’ll take on it.
EA: Aren’t you too young for Mr. Rochester?
MF: I’ll grey up a little. Then a film with David Cronenbourg, “The Talking Cure.” I’ll be working with Christoph Walz and Keira Knightley. It’s about the triangle between Freud, Jung and his patient Sabina, a patient of both of theirs, written by Christopher Hampton.
IFC.com has posted a lengthy interview with Michael:
You’re on a hell of a career streak, working with all these first-rate filmmakers.
You know, it fell the way it fell. I was always interested in playing more character-driven parts, and it just so happened that I managed to get them. What interests me is discovering different personalities and the study of the human condition.
To do something like Hicox [in "Inglourious Basterds"] — which is sort of staid and a period, and has a very specific way of speaking — then something that’s more guttural, down and dirty like Bobby Sands or Connor, more working class characters, that’s what I enjoy doing. But it wasn’t like I was planning a trajectory — I just read things and go by my gut, and then obviously, whoever the director is… I mean, I do two days’ work on a Tarantino film if it’s offered to me. [laughs] So they’re how I make the choices: the script, then the director and the other actors attached.
Quiet Earth has offered the opportunity to win one of three copies of Joel Schumacher’s Blood Creek on dvd starring Henry Cavill, Dominic Purcell, and Michael Fassbender. Blood Creek will be released in the US on Jan. 19, 2010.
It was reported a few weeks ago that Jonah Hex was going back for reshoots, adding new characters. It’s just been reported that Michael and most of the leads are included in those reshoots:
Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Megan Fox and Michael Fassbender will reunite later this month for about 10 days’ worth of filming in the Los Angeles area.
Although no test screenings have taken place, Warner Bros. has added 12 pages to the script and decided to re-shoot some scenes.
A very nice and light interview with Michael in New York City this past week.
Nevermind that Inglourious Basterds star Michael Fassbender is one of the most magnetic actors on the scene; or that he’s charmed the hell out of Hollywood shotcallers like Tom Hanks, Steven Soderbergh, and Joel Schumacher; or that he’s gutsy enough to sign on for a Jane Austen adaptation, two Nazi flicks (one of the vampire variety, the other of the Quentin brand), a role as a cheating husband who rapes his girlfriend’s 15-year-old daughter, and a Christian Bale-esque anorexic-for-the-sake-of-cinema biopic on Irish hunger striker Bobby Day over the course of three years. The bigger question is why don’t you know this badass better? We sat down for a drink with him while he was in New York for the release of his latest film, Cannes favorite Fish Tank (out this week), to find out how to stump a mastermind like Tarantino, why Megan Fox keeps things quick and dirty on set, and the one thing a guy this ballsy is afraid of.
Attached to the interview are those wonderful GQ well dressed photos, by photographer Ben Watts. Photos are in the gallery, too.
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