"What if a new intelligence was born?"
Directed by Wally PfisterProduced by Broderick Johnson, Andrew A. Kosorve, Kate Cohen, Marisa Polvino, Annie Marter, David Valdes, Aaron Ryder
Written by Jack Paglen
Starring: Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Kate Mara, Cillian Murphy, Morgan Freeman
Music by Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Jess Hall
Edited by David Rosenbloom
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, Summit Entertainment
Release date: April 18, 2014 (United States and China)
Running time: 119 minutes
Country: United States, China
"Transcendence" is a drama mystery sci-fi film directed by Wally Pfister and written by Jack Paglen. The plot is about a scientist, Dr. Will Caster, who is working on artificial intelligence, or in his words "Transcendence". His beloved wife Evelyn always supports him in any efforts. But one day the extremist group "Revolutionary Independence From Technology" (R.I.F.T.) shoots Will with an irradiated bullet. Therefore Caster starts to die - doctors gives him no more than a month to live. In desperation, Evelyn decides to upload Will's consciousness into the quantum computer that the project has developed. Everything succeeded, so she connects the computer intelligence to the Internet as to grow in capability and knowledge. But is this artificial intelligence Will in fact?
