Johnny Depp

Warner Bros. have finally released the first poster for Wally Pfister’s Transcendence. With just a couple of months to go until the movie is released, here’s hoping that the marketing campaign steps up a gear. In fact, that looks set to begin tomorrow with the release of a brand new trailer.

With an original plot, an impressive cast and a director who served as the cinematographer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy, Transcendence has all the makings of a blockbuster and hopefully won’t be lost in what is a pretty crowded year for movies.

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. 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.

Directed by Wally Pfister and starring Johnny Depp Paul Bettany, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins, Jr. and Morgan Freeman, Transcendence is set to be released on April 18th, 2014.

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