Cillian Murphy Joins Johnny Depp in TRANSCENDENCE

Cillian Murphy is the latest actor to join the cast of Wally Pfister's cool sounding sci-fi film Transcendence, which is being produced by Christopher Nolan. The movie has been described as being in the same vein as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Inception. It also stars Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Paul Bettany, Morgan Freeman,and Kate Mara. There's no word on the character Murphy will be playing, but he's always a fine addition to any cast. Here's a description of the story:

Three scientists -- Max and the husband and wife team, Will and Evelyn -- have been developing a programming code for the world’s first fully self-aware computer. Depp will play one of the lead scientists, Will. The other two roles have not yet been cast. 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 movie is set to be released on April 25th, 2014. Thanks to Latino-Review for the update!