“God created man. Man created immortality.” Such hubris in a single sentence speaks volumes about this new film, Self/less. The dream of eternal life motivates a cancer stricken man to undergo a radical medical procedure. He leaves one body and wakes up in another. With this new lease on life, the sky is the limit, at least until the weight of the past brings him back down to Earth. This new body has a past that it can’t run away from. At the same time, the old soul within the body has to deal with the consequences from obtaining it.
Self/less is directed by Tarsem Singh and stars Sir Ben Kingsley and Ryan Reynolds. You can expect it in U.S theaters July 10th 2015 and U.K theatres July 24th 2015. For full worldwide release dates, click here.
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