Transcendence: Johnny Depps Brain Becomes the Internet, Morgan Freeman Has a Question

Apr 10, 14 by Cherie Saunders Leave a comment

*Morgan Freeman may have played God twice on the big screen, but in his latest film Transcendence, its Johnny Depp who gets to feel like the Alpha and the Omega.

He plays artificial intelligence researcher Dr. Will Caster, striving to create a super computer that combines the collective intelligence of everything ever known with the ability to feel the full range of human emotion, a process he calls transcendence.

His work has a contingent of haters anti-technology extremists who place a target on his back, but inadvertently give the good doctor exactly what he wantsa chance to be the guinea pig who transcends.

Caster no longer in his body, but in the machine starts feeling his omnipresence. His knowledge and power is now as vast and endless as the Internet that his brain has absorbed. And the question inevitably becomes, has technology now officially gone too far? For Caster, it clearly has.

I think Will is dedicated to the cause, and yeah, maybe power when you realize essentially that youre God, Depp said at the films press conference this week. There aint nothing on earth more powerful than you. You can do anything you want. You can transfer every cent from the Bank of England into an account in Syria or whatever. I think Will was just so focused on the cause and its sort of like Che Guevara in a way. You get too far into it.

Morgan Freeman and Johnny Depp in Transcendence

Freeman plays Joseph Tagger, part of a team sent out to mitigate the damage after Casters consciousness is uploaded into the computer. Despite the growing concerns of Casters wife Evelyn (Rebecca Hall) and best friend Max Waters (Paul Bettany), both researchers as well, Caster not only continues his quest for power, but has seemingly achieved his goal of expressing human emotions through the machine or so he thinks.

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Transcendence: Johnny Depps Brain Becomes the Internet, Morgan Freeman Has a Question