Lucy is a 2014 French action film directed, written and edited by Luc Besson, and produced by Besson and Europacorp. It was released on July The film was shot in Taipei, Paris and New York City. It stars Scarlett Johansson as the title character along with Morgan Freeman playing Professor Norman.[6][7]Lucy is a hard-partying, 25-year-old American woman living and studying in Taipei, Taiwan. She is forced to work as a drug mule by her new boyfriend for his employer, a Taiwanese gangster and drug lord named Mr. Jang. Lucy delivers a briefcase to Mr. Jang's hotel room that is handcuffed to her wrist containing a highly valuable synthetic superdrug that can increase the user's brain function capacity. The packaged drug is sewn into Lucy's addomen and that of others who will also transport the drug for sales in Europe. While in captivity, one of Lucy's captors kicks her mercilessly in the stomach, which causes the bag inside her to begin to leak, releasing the brain-enhancing drug into her system. As a result, she begins acquiring increasingly powerful mental talents and enhanced physical capabilities, such as absorbing information instantaneously, telekinesis, mental time travel, and can choose not to feel pain or other discomforts, in addition to other abilities. With her superhuman powers growing, Lucy only has a short amount of time left to find the men responsible for her new found powers and contacts a well known scientist and doctor, Professor Norman, whose research may be the key to saving her.