Wally Pfister, responsable de la dirección de fotografía en casi todos los films de Christopher Nolan, debuta en la realización con Transcendence. Varios actores habituales en las cintas de Nolan tienen presencia en la propuesta y Syncopy es una de las compañías productoras. Una película, cuya premisa argumental y primer trailer, nos prepara para algo realmente interesante:
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.
WARNER BROTHERS in association with ALCON ENTERTAINMENT and DMG ENTERTAINMENT presents a SYNCOPY and STRAIGHT UP FILMS production
"TRANSCENDENCE"
JOHNNY DEPP MORGAN FREEMAN
REBECCA HALL KATE MARA CILLIAN MURPHY
COLE HAUSER CLIFTON COLLINS JR. and PAUL BETTANY
Music by MYCHAEL DANNA
Cinematography by JESS HALL
Film editing by DAVID ROSENBLOOM
Production design by CHRIS SEAGERS
Production design by CHRIS SEAGERS
Produced by BRODERICK JOHNSON ANDREW A. KOSOVE KATE COHEN MARISA POLVINO ANNIE MARTER DAVID VALDES and AARON RYDER
Written by JACK PAGLEN
Directed by WALLY PFISTER