Michael Fassbender threw us for a loop when he played Steve Jobs last year, because it felt so new. What had happened to the old Fassbender? You know, the Fassbender who played a creepy, horrifying slave owner in Twelve Years a Slave or the Fassbender who played a creepy sex addict in Shame or the Fassbender who portrayed a creepy, determined android in Prometheus? You know what I mean? Fassbender is good at playing total creeps, and that's a skill set we should celebrate.
Luckily, according to Variety, Fassbender is heading into much more familiar (read: creepier) territory in a new film called Entering Hades. Oscar-winning writer Alexander Dinelaris, who co-wrote Birdman, is currently rewriting the script, which seems like an exciting collaboration.
Entering Hades is based on the true-crime book by John Leake, which is about an Austrian journalist named Jack Unterweger who led a double life investigating murders by day and committing murders by night. He killed eleven people across multiple continents and then killed himself in prison the same way he killed his victims. Creepy enough for you? Yeah, that's what I thought.