First Poster For Wally Pfister’s ‘Transcendence’ Starring Johnny Depp
The first poster for Wally Pfister’s upcoming original sci-fi film Transcendence has been released and it features Johnny Depp sporting some amazing blue cornrows. The film centers on “two leading computer scientists who work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.” Basically, Depp plays a terminally ill tech genius who uploads (or downloads?) his consciousness into a computer and ends up taking things too far.
Rebecca Hall, Kata Mara, Paul Bettany, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman, and Clifton Collins Jr. also star. A new trailer for the film will be released tomorrow morning.
This is the most normal Depp’s looked in a poster for a long time.
Dr. Will Caster (Depp) is the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, working to create a sentient machine that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the full range of human emotions. His highly controversial experiments have made him famous, but they have also made him the prime target of anti-technology extremists who will do whatever it takes to stop him. However, in their attempt to destroy Will, they inadvertently become the catalyst for him to succeed—to be a participant in his own transcendence. For his wife Evelyn (Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should. Their worst fears are realized as Will’s thirst for knowledge evolves into a seemingly omnipresent quest for power, to what end is unknown. The only thing that is becoming terrifyingly clear is there may be no way to stop him.