Biography
Michael Schaefer is a German film producer. He began his career in the late 1990s and worked as a studio executive at Summit Entertainment before joining Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions as president in 2012.
Schaefer produced The Martian (2015), directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damon, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. He also produced Alien: Covenant (2017), Murder on the Orient Express (2017) and Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014). In 2016 he became president of the motion picture group at New Regency Productions.
