Scarlett Johansson is already the Marvel superhero Black Widow in this weekend’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier,” but this summer she’ll be showcasing actual super powers as “Lucy.”
The first trailer (above) for the upcoming action flick from writer/director Luc Besson (“The Professional”) shows Johansson — an American abducted somewhere in Asia and turned into a drug mule — accidentally accessing more cerebral capacity than any human being on the planet when whatever drug that was surgically implanted in her stomach leaks into her system.
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As she gets closer to reaching 100 percent of her brain function, she continues to evolve into merciless warrior looking for revenge on her captors.
Morgan Freeman plays a professor studying the untapped powers that lay dormant in humanity in the “Limitless”-like movie that Universal is releasing in theaters on Aug. 8.