Although Jolie was in "serious talks" with Besson since 2011 to star in his next directorial effort, then untitled, he stated that she was not his first choice for the role of Lucy. She was definitely the one." Angelina Jolie is widely reported to have been originally cast as Lucy, and as having dropped out of the role prior to filming. At that moment, it was a done deal for me. The role of Lucy called for "an actress who could be believable as extremely vulnerable, as well as superpowered, when her exposure to an illicit substance inadvertently makes her acquire incredible skills." Impressed by Johansson's discipline, Besson considered her for the role, stating that she was immediately precise and professional, and he "enjoyed the way she talked about the film." He said, "She was excited for the right reason, which was the story. Now you know what to do with it."Īn unwilling drug mule who is accidentally dosed with a drug that activates a myriad of pre-encoded genetic conscious capabilities. Del Rio asks Norman where Lucy is, immediately after which Del Rio's cell phone sounds and he sees a text message: "I am everywhere." Lucy's voice is then heard stating "Life was given to us a billion years ago. Norman takes a black flash drive offered by the supercomputer, after which it disintegrates.
Only her clothes and the black supercomputer are left behind.ĭel Rio enters and fatally shoots Jang. He shoots, but by then Lucy has reached 100% of her brain capacity and disappears, moving into the spacetime continuum. Meanwhile, Jang enters the lab and points a gun at Lucy's head. She touches fingertips with her, then goes all the way to the beginning of time and witnesses the Big Bang.
She mentally begins a spacetime journey into the past, eventually reaching the oldest discovered ancestor of mankind, Lucy. Her body changes into a black substance that begins spreading over computers and other electronic objects in the lab, transforming them into a next-generation supercomputer. At her urging, she is intravenously injected with the contents of all three remaining bags of CPH4. In the professor's lab, Lucy discusses the nature of time and life and how people's humanity distorts their perceptions. Meeting Norman and his colleagues, she agrees to share everything she knows. With the help of Del Rio, Lucy recovers the rest of the drugs. To stave off her disintegration, Lucy consumes more of the drug. During the flight, she starts to disintegrate as her cells destabilize from consuming a sip of champagne. After Lucy speaks with Norman and provides proof of her developed abilities, she flies to Paris and contacts a local police captain, Pierre Del Rio, to help her find the remaining three packets of the drug. Lucy begins researching her condition and contacts scientist Samuel Norman, whose research may be the key to saving her. Jang's hotel, kills his bodyguards, assaults him, and telepathically extracts the locations of the three remaining drug mules from his brain. Growing heightened physical and mental abilities, Lucy returns to Mr. She is told by the operating doctor that natural CPH4 is produced in minute quantities by pregnant women during their sixth week of pregnancy to provide fetuses with the energy to develop. Lucy travels to the nearby Tri-Service General Hospital to get the bag of drugs removed from her abdomen. Using her new abilities, she kills her captors and escapes. She also becomes ruthless and emotionless. She acquires increasingly enhanced physical and mental capabilities, such as telepathy, telekinesis, mental time travel, and the ability not to feel pain. While in captivity, she is kicked in the stomach, breaking the bag and releasing a large quantity of the drug into her system. Jang containing four packets of CPH4, a highly valuable synthetic drug.Īfter seeing Richard shot and killed, she is captured and a bag of the drug is forcibly sewn into her abdomen to transport the drug to Europe. 25-year-old American Lucy is studying in Taipei, Taiwan and is tricked into working as a drug mule by her new boyfriend Richard for a South Korean kkangpae and drug lord.
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