Wally Pfister’s Transcendence gets a poster, featurette, and still featuring Johnny Depp

Last Updated on August 2, 2021

There’s much anticipation when it comes to the directorial debut of Wally Pfister. The long time cinematographer to Christopher Nolan will deliver TRANSCENDENCE come next year. He’s gather a rather exceptional cast including Johnny Depp and Cillian Murphy. Today we have our first look from the set though it isn’t much.

The still shows Depp and Rebecca Hall during production. Then we have a featurette that takes us behind the scenes and an international poster. We don’t learn much more from the stuff we’re given. It just serves to remind us that this is a project to go to the top of the list of one’s to watch.

Check out the poster and featurette below.

Synopsis: Three scientists — Max and the husband and wife team, Will (Depp) and Evelyn — have been developing a programming code for the world’s first fully self-aware computer. A group of anti-technology terrorists assassinate Will, Evelyn uploads his brain into a prototype supercomputer. Although she at first finds the experiment seems to have gone wrong, before too long Evelyn finds Will responding in computer form. She goes on to connect Will to the Internet so he can help make further scientific breakthroughs. Will asks Evelyn to connect a microphone and a camera up to the computer so he can see and speak to her as well. When the anti-technology organization finds out, they try to steal the supercomputer and destroy it, but Will no longer needs the computer to survive.

TRANSCENDENCE starring Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, Clifton Collins Jr., Kate Mara, and Paul Bettany is due out on April 18, 2014.