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- PG-13
- 2008
- 2 Seasons
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Transcendence is a 2014 science fiction movie that stars Johnny Depp as a scientist who ponders and takes interest in the realm of artificial intelligence. The film Transcendence involves the protagonist Dr. Will Caster, played by Johnny Depp, who is a scientist and researcher in the artificial intelligence field. Because he is so curious with the universe and all that it encompasses, he decides he wants to create a sentient computer machine that has all of the intelligence and knowledge in the world with human emotions to match. In the process of going through this experiment he becomes the target of an extremist group called "RIFT," and in the process he's wounded, starts dying and has no choice but to upload his conscience into the sentient computer he is designing. His wife Evelyn, played by Rebecca Hall, is the one who helps upload him into the computer in the first place. Rounding out the cast are actors Paul Bettany, Kate Mara and Morgan Freeman. The movie itself was directed by Wally Pfister, which is his very first film where he serves as a director. Broderick Johnson served as a producer for the film while Jack Paglen was the film's screenwriter.