This film starring Johnny Depp was such a big failure that it ended its director’s career – Noticias de Cine
Johnny Depp enjoyed great popularity, but his career was not always full of success, as was the case with this film that ruined the reputation of its director.
Johnny Depp’s career has taken a serious hit following his controversial lawsuit with his ex-wife Amber Heard. The actor returned to the industry with Jean du Barry, a film screened at the Cannes Film Festival, but has not appeared in other projects since then. This is not the first time that the favorite star Tim Burton Same happened with this film facing crisis in his career, which got its director.
Wally Pfister has become one of the best known directors of photography in the industry. Christopher Nolan commissioned many of his works, from Memento to The Dark Knight Rises, but it was his work in Inception that earned him an Oscar. Your experience in the lens read the security of being transferred to the director’s room, Siendo supremacy It is major opera, but the result was not what I expected.
What is ‘Transcendence’ about?
The story centers on Will Castor (Depp).A renowned researcher is obsessed with creating a complete artificial intelligence that possesses all the knowledge of the universe. His controversial experiments have turned him into a prime target of anti-technology extremists who would make it possible to stop him.
With the help of his wife and his associates, Will has become one of the most terrifying threats to humanity by becoming the most powerful artificial intelligence. A film that was released in 2014 and that portrays one of the current fears that have been addressed in films such as Mission Impossible: Death Sentence Part 1 or Agent Stone. But what was the problem with the strap?
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‘Transcendence’: an inevitable failure
The film stars several stars including Rebecca Hall, Morgan Freeman and Cillian Murphy. During its premiere, it was praised by critics, with no holds barred by the public’s opinion of it. supremacy It had a budget of $100 million and collected a little over $10 million in its first weekend in the United States, With worldwide tickets for only $103 million. A lease that cannot be changed.
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Transcendence faded into oblivion too soon and is one of the least known films of Johnny Depp’s careerwho was already famous for his participation in Pirates of the Caribbean, Alicia in the Country of Wonders and Diario de un Seductor.
Nadi could have saved himself from the film’s failure, especially for Pfister, who had gone 10 years without making a single film. Since then, he has single-handedly directed four episodes of Flaked, a Netflix series, and two episodes of The Tick on Amazon Prime Video.
