Warner Bros. has released the first trailer for Academy Award-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister’s directorial debut Transcendence, a sci-fi thriller starring Johnny Depp as an Artificial Intelligence creator whose brain is uploaded into a super computer when he’s shot by anti-technology activists… I think.

Better read the official synopsis:

Dr. Will Caster (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.

Transcendence co-stars Rebecca Hall (Iron Man 3) as Will’s wife and Paul Bettany (Legion) as his best friend Max Waters, both fellow researchers frightened by Will’s omnipresent quest for power. Rounding out the cast are Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy (Dark Knight), and Kate Mara (“American Horror Story”).

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