Michael Fassbender Is Almost Human in Freaky 'Prometheus' Ad

Any company could use an automaton like him

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Do you lie awake at night trying to figure out which of your co-workers are really incredibly lifelike robots who are spying on you for the company? Other than human-resources people, I mean. Cue this fun promo-within-a-promo clip for Ridley Scott's Alien prequel Prometheus, which hits theaters in June. In the film, Michael Fassbender plays an automaton created by creepy futuristic firm Weyland Industries. Here, he stars in a corporate "sales video," boasting, "I can make your organization more efficient … I can carry out directives that my human counterparts might find [pause] distressing … [pause] or unethical."

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