Paul Bettany has had it a bit rough the past few years, famously turning down "The King's Speech" (oops) and starring in a handful of forgettable movies like the Charles Darwin flick "Creation," and stuff like "Legion" and "Priest." He had a nice turn in "Margin Call," but most he's been better known of late as the voice of Jarvis, Tony Stark's AI butler, in the Marvel movies. He's a talented dude who has always seemed to just keep missing a leap into bigger and better things, but his time may have finally arrived. Bettany has joined Wally Pfister's secretive, and highly anticipated "Transcendence" with Johnny Depp. Of course, the pair both starred in the pretty awful "The Tourist" (as we detailed today in our 5 Great & 5 Disappointing English-Language Debuts By Foreign-Language Directors features) but we'd wager they're on better ground here. The film will tell the tale of a scientist who has his brain uploaded into a supercomputer after he's assassinated by...
No comments:
Post a Comment