Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #198. Wally Pfister’s Transcendence

Transcendence

Director: Wally Pfister
Writer(s): Jack Paglen
Producer(s): Straight Up Films Straight Up Films’ Annie Marter + Alcon Ent.’s Marisa Polvino, Kate Cohen, David Valdes and Broderick Johnson & Andrew Kosove
U.S. Distributor: Warner Bros.
Cast: Johnny Depp, Kata Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Rebecca Hall

Wally Pfister, cinematographer for Christopher Nolan’s Batman films, along with a number of other high profile titles, makes his directorial debut with Transcendence, from first time screenwriter, Jack Paglen (who purportedly also penned Prometheus 2). Of course, Pfister was able to line up a spectacular cast, so we’re hoping this is a sci-fi flick that has more substance than slick visuals.

Gist: Dr. Will Caster (Johnny 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 (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both fellow researchers, the question is not if they can…but if they should.

Release Date: Hits theaters wide on April 18th.

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