Morgan Freeman Joins Johnny Depp in TRANSCENDENCE

Legendary actor Morgan Freeman is the latest actor to join the cast of Wally Pfister's sci-fi film Transcendence, which Christopher Nolan is producing. Freeman joins Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, and Kate Mara in the film. I love the story concept, and Freeman will of course make an amazing addition to the cast.

From what we know of the film right now, the story revolves around three scientists, Max and a husband and wife team, Will and Evelyn, who "have been developing a programming code for the world’s first fully self-aware computer." Depp plays a scientist whose brain is uploaded into the supercomputer creating the world’s first machine that can think for itself. The story contains themes of singularity and nanotechnology. Here's a more detailed breakdown of the story that was previously released,

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.

Will creates a backup of himself to every computer in the world, and furthers his work through accessing online indexes. 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.

The film is scheduled to be released on April 25th, 2014. It will shoot this May in Los Angeles.