Aaron Sorkin. However Sorkin eventually came round to the idea of Fassbender in the Steve Jobs biopic he penned, and wrote, ‘F*** it. He’s a great actor whose time has come. Yeah, if the movie’s good, he’ll be on the cover of everything and get nominated for everything.’

In the hacked emails there was also this exchange between studio execs after they sent a copy of Shame to Sorkin to convince him: 

Shame just makes you feel bad to have normal sized male genitalia, unless Aaron is Johnny Wad Holmes he’s in for a bummer of an evening. I’d steer mark to fassbenders roles in inglorious bastards where he’s basically Cary Grant, Prometheus where he’s basically Peter o toole, and x men first class where he’s just very very good. His role in 12 Years and his performance of it rivals Ralph Fiennes’ iconic depiction of twisted, racial sadistic violence as Amon Goeth for making horror watchable. Also very good as Rochester in Cary Fukunagas Jane Eyre. I’ll tell him.