Self/less (2015) HD Drama Full Movie

An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he .

Director:

Tarsem Singh

Writers:

David Pastor (screenplay), Àlex Pastor (screenplay)

Stars:

Matthew Goode, Ryan Reynolds, Michelle Dockery |

Storyline

An extremely wealthy man, dying from cancer, undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the organization that will kill to protect its cause.It looks like we don't have any Synopsis for this title yet.

Did You Know?

First film directed by Tarsem Singh not to feature costume design by the late Eiko Ishioka. Actually, this sounds a lot like the plot to Freejack from 1992, starring Anthony Hopkins as a future billionaire who grabs Emilio Estevez from the past so he can transfer into his body.

User Reviews

Stories like this pop up all the time (some sort of body part, or the whole body, is transferred from one person to another and supernatural occurrences begin, usually dealing with memories of the former person terrorizing the new owner), be it the aforementioned Body Parts (which is a stretch, in my opinion; not quite the "same concept"), The Eye...
Honestly, to me, this sounds most like an old 1955 Tales From the Crypt story "The Switch" (made for the TV series with William Hickey as an old billionaire that switches bodies with a younger man to get a girl to love him). And, even before that, this type of science-gone-wrong story can be traced back to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.
Anyway, it doesn't matter, because the originality of any story comes in how it plays out, and in what context. The 'basic plots' of most stories ever told are similar to a bunch of others. If this keeps the focus on the dark side of immortality in modern science (which is what I gather from the plot descriptions), and doesn't go into "trying to woo a younger girl" or "the body starts killing people against his will," then it'll be a fresh take on the story, and therefore won't be a re-tread.
Besides all of that, the reason I came to this page in the first place is because I'm curious to see what director Tarsem will do, since I'm such a fan of his earlier work (The Cell, The Fall) and I'm sure this will be worth seeing for the visuals alone.