'After his wife is killed during a brutal mugging that also leaves him paralysed, Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green, SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING, PROMETHEUS) is approached by a billionaire inventor with an experimental cure that will “upgrade” his body. The cure – an Artificial Intelligence implant called STEM – gives Grey physical abilities beyond anything experienced and the ability to relentlessly claim vengeance against those who murdered his wife and left him for dead.'
Source: Production blurb.
Writing Disability in Australia
| Type of disability | Paralysis (trauma induced and counteracted by SF technologies). |
| Type of character | Primary. |
| Point of view | First person (film). |
'Tapping into current anxieties about tech companies that routinely peer into our private lives online, Upgrade is a sci-fi action movie set in the near future about a man who has an artificial intelligence device implanted into his brain.' (Introduction)
'Leigh Whannell wants you to know that he has not killed anyone yet.
'The 41-year-old Australian writer-director, best known for turning a post-film-school short into the multi-million-dollar horror franchise Saw, is used to people being surprised about his even temperament.' (Introduction)
'The French philosopher Paul Virilio famously suggested, in recent works like The Original Accident, that the invention of every technology marks the simultaneous invention of its accident. The invention of the car invents the car crash, the invention of the ship invents the shipwreck, and so on. This is the basic idea underpinning the narrative of virtually all science-fiction literature and film – the malfunctioning of technologies designed for control – from the 19th-century novel Frankenstein to the 21st-century film Blade Runner 2049.' (Introduction)
'Tapping into current anxieties about tech companies that routinely peer into our private lives online, Upgrade is a sci-fi action movie set in the near future about a man who has an artificial intelligence device implanted into his brain.' (Introduction)
'The French philosopher Paul Virilio famously suggested, in recent works like The Original Accident, that the invention of every technology marks the simultaneous invention of its accident. The invention of the car invents the car crash, the invention of the ship invents the shipwreck, and so on. This is the basic idea underpinning the narrative of virtually all science-fiction literature and film – the malfunctioning of technologies designed for control – from the 19th-century novel Frankenstein to the 21st-century film Blade Runner 2049.' (Introduction)
'Leigh Whannell wants you to know that he has not killed anyone yet.
'The 41-year-old Australian writer-director, best known for turning a post-film-school short into the multi-million-dollar horror franchise Saw, is used to people being surprised about his even temperament.' (Introduction)
