What if holograms hit Hollywood?
Humphrey Bogart in a scene from 'Casablanca.' / Anonymous AP 
In Johnny Depp's brainy new dramaTranscendence, his character, a foremost researcher of artificial intelligence, chooses to have his brain uploaded to the Internet, rather than to die.
That means for much of the film, directed by Wally Pfister (Christopher Nolan's long-trusted, Oscar-winning cinematographer-turned-director) audiences â?? like his character's researcher wife (Rebecca Hall) â?? experience Depp's persona via hologram.
Consequently, the actor spent much of the production in a cloaked booth near the set, with Hall working off of a projection of his image. 'I was essentially in a weird little black room on my own with a video camera,' said Depp at the film's Thursday premiere in Los Angeles.
Holograms began an experimentation phase in Hollywood with the now-infamous appearance of a virtual Tupac Shakur, deceased since 1996, rapping alongside Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg at 2012's Coachella music festival.
Should the technology ever allow, which legendary actors would Depp want to act against, in hologram form?
The actor lit up at the possibilities. 'Imagine making a film with Bogart, or Lauren Bacall,' Depp mused.
Morgan Freeman, who plays a fellow scientist in Transcendence, similarly brightened at the prospect.
'Oh my goodness!' said Freeman. 'Let me start with Gary Cooper, whom I absolutely adored. Sydney Poitier, whom I should have been able to work with and never was. Spencer Tracy. Any of those old guys that we used to love. And Humphrey Bogart! I'd put Humphrey Bogart right behind Gary Cooper.'
Your move, Tinseltown.
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