Warner Bros. has premiered yet another new trailer from their upcoming 2014 slate, this one for Transcendence, the feature directorial debut of Christopher Nolan‘s long-time cinematographer Wally Pfister and he has brought along an impressive cast to carry out his high concept.
Johnny Depp stars as Dr. Will Caster, the foremost researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence, who is 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.
Set for release on April 18, 2014, the film co-stars Kate Mara, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy and Cory Hardrict.
Check out the trailer below.
