Sensational UPGRADE Trailers and More Promotional Videos Experience the new UPGRADE trailers and more promotional videos! The film, written and directed by Leigh Whannell (Insidious: Chapter 3), stars Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Cawthorne, Michael M. Foster, and Betty Gabriel. UPGRADE will be released in theaters next Friday. Set in the near-future, technology controls nearly all aspects of life. But when Grey, a self-identified technophobe, has his world turned upside down, his only hope for revenge is an experimental computer chip implant called Stem.