Michael Fassbender Talks His Alien: Covenant Robot Walter

One of the most anticipated franchise movies of next year is 20th Century Fox and Ridley Scott's prequel-sequel Alien: Covenant, and during an exclusive chat with star Michael Fassbender for Assassin's Creed today, we asked him how his new android role Walter differs from the nefarious antics of Prometheus's David, who also shows up for the new film. "I think Walter's a real different kettle of fish," Fassbender told us. "David was definitely a work-in-progress, somewhat of a prototype I suppose. The elements of him that were the human elements I think people found a little disturbing, so Walter's more of a straightforward robot. It sounds like Walter has more in common with a helpful robot like Bishop from Aliens as opposed to Ian Holm's "twitchy" Ash in Scott's original Alien.