Transcendence (2014 film)

Transcendence

Transcendence

Transcendence is a 2014 science fiction film directed by cinematographer Wally Pfister in his directorial debut, and written by Jack Paglan. The English-language co-production stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Streaming Made Easy Paul Bettany, and Morgan Freeman. Pfister's usual collaborator movie streaming, Christopher Nolan, served as executive producer on the project. At one time, Paglan's screenplay was part of what is known as the Black List, movie streaming a list of popular but unproduced screenplays in Hollywood. Transcendence was released to mostly negative reviews and disappointed at the box office.

Plot

Dr. Will Caster (Johnny Depp) is a scientist motivated by curiosity about the nature of the universe. Being part of a team working to create a sentient computer, movie streaming he predicts that such a computer will create a technological singularity, or in his words "Transcendence". His wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall), Streaming Made Easy whom he loves deeply, supports his efforts and joins him in their garden where he has built a Faraday cage to keep out wireless signals. However, movie streaming the extremist group "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with a radioactive bullet and carry out a series of synchronised attacks on his artificial-intelligence computer laboratories. Will is given no more than a month to live.

In desperation, Evelyn comes up with a plan to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. His best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), movie streaming also a researcher, questions the wisdom of this choice. Will's likeness survives his body's death and requests that he be connected to the Internet so as to grow in capability and knowledge. Max panics, Streaming Made Easy insisting that the computer intelligence is not Will. Evelyn forcibly ejects Max from the building and connects the computer intelligence to the Internet.