‘Self/Less’ Spoilers: Ben Kingsley Takes Over Ryan Reynolds’ Body In Trailer Of Upcoming Movie [VIDEO]
Today, we finally got a preview of the upcoming conscious-swapping movie Self/Less (or just Selfless).
In it, stately British actor Sir Ben Kingsley (Ghandi, Shindler's List) plays an aging wealthy businessman with all the trappings of living the 1% life - a penthouse view, chauffeured cars, private planes, someone saying "it's an honor to meet you," etc - who's dying and is presented the chance to implant his mind into a new younger and healthier body.
"We offer humanity's greatest minds more time to fulfill their potential," explains an especially creepy Mathew Goode (Watchmen, Imitation Game) as a pitchman for the secretive medical procedure, which puts Kingsley's mind into an empty living vessel. "If we do this," adds Goode, "there's no turning back."
Of course Kingsley signs up for the process, which includes sticking his head into what looks like a quickly spinning CAT scan machine and being injected with a drug that's just "something to stop your heart," and wakes up as Ryan Reynolds (Mr. Blake Lively). He (as a young and buff Reynolds) soon begins reveling in his new lease on life, partying, driving fast cars and watercraft, hooking up with hotties, and shooting hoops.
But then things go awry when Reynolds (with Kingsley's mind) begins experiencing flashes of another life...one that belonging to the new body's original owner. So it turns out that Goode's promised "empty vessels" didn't start out so empty. And with a little digging Reynolds-Kingsley discovers that his new body was not only a real person, but had a family as well. The moral quandary of an extended life at the price of another's existence seems to compound further with the revelation that to stay in Reynolds' body (and thus not fade into oblivion), Kingsley requires upkeep from the same mysterious organization he now has a problem with.
Self/Less comes via director Tarsem Singh, who's known for his similarly psychedelic-themed films, most notable 2000's The Cell and 2011's The Fall, with script credit belonging to Spanish filmmakers David and Alex Pastor. It's scheduled to hit theaters in July.
