Rebecca Hall (The Town) is set to join Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Depp (The Lone Ranger) as a man who uploads his brain into a super computer that learns to think for itself.

Transcendence will shoot in Los Angeles in April and is slated for release on April 25, 2014 from Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. Geek messiah Christopher Nolan (Dark Knight Rises) serves as executive producer.

Hall’s credits include Nolan’s magician mystery The Prestige, the fantasy thriller Dorian Gray and the British ghost story The Awakening. She will next be seen in Marvel Studios/Disney’s Iron Man 3.