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Michael Fassbender (German pronunciation:[ˈmɪçaːʔeːl 'fasbɛndɐ]; born 2 April 1977) is a German-Irish actor. His accolades include nominations for two Academy Awards, four British Academy Film Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2020, he was listed at number nine on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. After studying at the Drama Centre London, Fassbender made his feature film debut in 300 (2006). Early roles include the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001) and the Sky One fantasy drama Hex (2004–2005). He first came to prominence playing Bobby Sands in the drama Hunger (2008). Subsequent roles include the 2009 films Fish Tank and Inglourious Basterds, and the 2011 films Jane Eyre and A Dangerous Method. He gained mainstream success for playing Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto in the X-Men series, and David 8 and Walter One in Prometheus (2012), and its sequel, Alien: Covenant (2017). For his portrayal of a addict in Steve McQueen's drama Shame (2011), he won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. His portrayals of Edwin Epps in the historical drama 12 Years a Slave (2013) and the title role in biographical drama Steve Jobs (2015), respectively, earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Best Actor. Following further roles in the films The Counselor (2013), Frank (2014), and Macbeth (2015), he took an eight-year hiatus, during which he began competing in auto racing. After driving for Proton Competition in the European Le Mans Series in 2023, Fassbender made a return to acting with the action films The Killer (2023) and Black Bag (2025). Married to Swedish actress Alicia Vikander since 2017, he has two children. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Fassbender, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the early 2000s, teenage runaway Billy Batson is chosen by the ancient wizard Shazam to wield the power of living lightning. But almost immediately after receiving his powers, Billy is caught in a larger cosmic conflict between two advanced factions. One side is a militant cosmic order known as the Controllers, cold, authoritarian beings who believe emotion breeds chaos. Their elite warrior and Billy’s mentor figure is Karshon and convinces that Billy must suppress his humanity to become the perfect soldier. Opposing the Controllers are the long-hunted Manhunters, ancient synthetic beings scattered and nearly extinct. Publicly branded as galactic terrorists, they are blamed for atrocities across sectors of space. Billy, operating under Karshon’s guidance, believes he is helping the Controllers eliminate dangerous Manhunter infiltrators on Earth. During a confrontation, he crashes into Philadelphia, drawing the attention of Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S., who begin investigating this superpowered anomaly. As Billy struggles with fractured memories, flashes of his real life return, his adoptive mother’s kindness and his bond with Mary Bromfield, who always believed he was destined for something greater. These emotional ties begin weakening the mental conditioning imposed by the Controllers. Everything changes when Billy encounters Martian Manhunter, who reveals the truth: the Manhunters are not conquerors in this era, they are refugees. The Controllers reactivated them centuries ago as enforcers, then cast them aside when they developed independent thought. Now the Controllers seek a new power source, the magic of Shazam, to create a perfected enforcement army stripped entirely of free will. Karshon confronts Billy, insisting that emotion makes him weak and that only absolute order can save the universe. He pushes Billy to unlock greater power, not for Billy’s sake, but to weaponize the Lightning of Shazam as a cosmic battery for the Controllers’ expansion. Billy rejects Karshon’s ideology. Embracing his humanity, his love for his family, his fear, his hope, he turns his full magical power against the Controllers’ war fleet. The Manhunters, freed from suppression protocols, aid him in shutting down the Controllers’ command nexus. But the Controllers have anchored their control network outside linear time. To fully sever it, Billy channels the wizard’s lightning into the temporal core of their system. The explosion destroys the Controllers’ immediate invasion force and hurls Billy forward through time. In the post-credits scene, Billy crashes down into the year 2019, landing on an Earth that appears nearly apocalyptic, only to be discovered by the remaining members of the Justice League.
