Transcendence Trailer Teases Us About The Singularity

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Taking cues from his Dark Knight trilogy and Inception collaborator Christopher Nolan, the teaser trailer for next year's Transcendence uses computer code and binary numbers as visuals while Johnny Depp talks about the ever increasing rate at which technology grows, overshadowing every human being on the planet, leading to the Singularity, or as Depp's character calls it: transcendence.

In April, the movie Transcendence will be released. In the film, Dr. Will Caster , played by 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.

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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.

Alcon Entertainment presents Transcendence, starring Oscar® nominee Johnny Depp (“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” “Finding Neverland,” the “Pirates of the Caribbean” films), Paul Bettany (“The Da Vinci Code,” “A Beautiful Mind”), Rebecca Hall (“The Town,” “The Prestige”), Kate Mara (“House of Cards,” “Shooter”), Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight Rises”), Clifton Collins, Jr. (“Star Trek,” “Pacific Rim”) and Oscar® winner Morgan Freeman (“Million Dollar Baby,” the “Dark Knight” movies).

Ray Kurzweil is also rumored to be an adviser to this the movie.

Transcendence marks the feature film directorial debut of Oscar®-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister (“Inception,” the “Dark Knight” movies).  Pfister directed the movie from a screenplay by Jack Paglen.

Oscar® nominees Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson (“The Blind Side”) are producing the film with Kate Cohen, Marisa Polvino, Annie Marter, David Valdes, and Aaron Ryder.

Pfister’s behind-the-scenes collaborators include director of photography Jess Hall (“Brideshead Revisited”), production designer Chris Seagers (“X-Men: First Class”), Oscar-nominated editor David Rosenbloom (“The Insider”), costume designer George L. Little (“Zero Dark Thirty”), and Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Nathan McGuinness (“Master and Commander”).  The music is composed by Mychael Danna, who won an Oscar® for his score for “Life of Pi.”

Opening nationwide on April 17, 2014, Transcendence will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Update: And now a second teaser has also been released, this time with a voiceover from Morgan Freeman.

SOURCE  Transcendecemovie.com

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