Johnny Depp Confirmed to Lead Wally Pfister’s Sci-Fi ‘Transcendence’

If there’s anyone who was hoping for another Pirates of the Caribbean sequel sometime in the next two to three years, we have some bad news. If you’re looking forward to some original, promising projects, then it’s time to celebrate. A press release has just announced that Johnny Depp has been confirmed to lead Transcendence, the sci-fi, feature directorial debut of cinematographer Wally Pfister, a frequent collaborator of directing Christoper Nolan, who is also producing the film. Immediately following Transcendence, Depp will shoot Black Mass, the gangster biopic we learned about earlier this month. For those who might need a refresher, Transcendence follows a husband and wife team who develop a programming code for the first self-aware computer. But when a group of anti-technology terrorists try to assassinate the husband, his wife uploads his brain into a prototype supercomputer. Rather than going horribly wrong, the man starts to respond in computer form and connects him to the Internet to continue to …