Lucy
Luc Besson certainly has a track record worth watching and he’s looking to add another film to his extensive list on August 8th, 2014 when Lucy debuts. The feature brings him to work with Scarlett Johansson and Morgan Freeman as a woman who gets used as a drug mule, but the drug ends up radically changing her system in a big way. It’s a bit light on the story itself and is more of an action focused piece but it looks rather well executed here and certainly a fun way to spend some time come August.
The feature is written and directed by Luc Besson and is being released by Universal Pictures.
Plot concept: Set in a futuristic world that is run by the mob, street gangs, drug addicts and corrupted cops, Lucy (Scarlett Johansson), a woman living in Taipei, Taiwan, 2069 AD, works as a drug mule for the mob. The drug she inadvertently takes goes into her system, changing her into a metahuman. She can absorb knowledge instantaneously, is able to move objects with her mind and can’t feel pain and other discomforts.