Here's the second one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3yNgd4_RRkWhat I know is that I've seen people who pirated and read the leaked script saying that it is not exactly what you are afraid of it being. It could, after all, be in favor of the idea without total support (i.e. "this is good but very dangerous").
Y'know, if they took it in that direction they could have a reasonably positive ending, with Depp being trounced, and everyone just kind of moving past that point and actually learning how to use their silly gizmo properly instead of burying their heads in the sand because of one mistake. You could have Morgan Freeman laughing like a child as he explores the inner reaches of Uranus with his completely-not-AI-driven retro-styled interplanetary cruiser, comfortably distant from the bustling turmoil of the emerging noosphere on Earth. Kate Mara and Paul Bettany falling down giggling in a poppy-field with some big fuzzy adorable genetically-altered feline uplift romping around them. Just. Experiencing. Life.
Meanwhile, Depp could wait lurking in some forgotten antarctic outpost, his hollow-faced SHODAN-style glare a brief lambent hint at a sequel running some mind-blowing so-far-future-it's-fantasy sci-fi in the newly established setting, Freeman returning as the space-captain who possesses the forgotten key component of human spirit the detached but innocent Beings of Pure Light need to fight the one-time pirate - the ability to kick some ass.
Ahem. Everything in nearly every big-budget sci-fi movie builds on some horrible mistake or abused technology in the beginning, there's always this undercurrent that they shouldn't have been playing with fire to begin with, and looking at the very real and I believe quite dangerous dip in STEM graduates and general scientific literacy, it's easy to get irritated with that kind of thing being pushed by prominent role-models. So I hope you're right. And no, I'm not saying people shouldn't write that kind of thing, as a writer and as a sometimes-fan of good post-apocalyptic rag I could
never say that, but it's such a common sentiment from Hollywood lately that I have trouble even believing I'll see anything else.