Fountain O, a new AI-driven company launched to produce entire films and TV series based on AI, has announced its second feature, Odysseus: Falling.
Ash Kosha, creator of the previous AI-generated film Iranian Resistance Dream of violets The film, which cost $2,000 to produce and debuted in Tribeca, is back with another live-action tale on a “mid-five-figure” budget and based on the Greek hero Odysseus. Fountain O, which unveiled the project on Tuesday, is looking to create buzz with audiences by backing the Christopher Nolan film. Odyssey The epic Greek epic film had a production budget of about $250 million and will hit theaters on July 17.
“We very much hope that Christopher Nolan’s film, odyssey, “The film is a huge success at the box office, and in a way our version of Odysseus’ voyage may enhance that success by bringing those who would not otherwise have gone out to see the film into theaters, simply because they are curious to see the extremes of human ingenuity and compare it to one man’s collaboration with artificial intelligence,” Ash said.
Nolan’s saga Odyssey Matt Damon stars as Odysseus, whose long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War brings him together with his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland). The cast also includes Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Travis Scott and Charlize Theron.
Artificial intelligence created Odysseus: The Fall, At 135 minutes, in its own take on Odysseus’s journey home, it focuses on “the fractured memory of a drowning man in his final minutes — a journey that is really an experience, where every monster wears his handwriting. Stripped of the word ‘intelligent,’ what’s left is a man reckoning with what he’s already done to get home. It ends where songs never go: not with a hero’s welcome, but with forgiveness offered by the only one who knows exactly what he did. ‘He,'” reads a synopsis from Fountain O.
As is the case with violet dreams, Actors, sets and cameras in Odysseus: Falling It has been completely replaced by AI models in its production. Meanwhile, the script, images and voice of the characters were done by Kosha using human creativity.
Storytellers should not feel threatened by AI tools, Kosha said in a statement to the outlet. “It is a threat to nothing but the distance, the distance between the person who has the story and the means of telling it. More films will be made in this way; that seems certain to me, the way it was once certain that anyone would be able to shoot with a camera in his pocket. What must survive change is the only thing that matters at all: the story, and the reason for telling it. Tool has never made a film worth seeing. Someone with something urgent to say made every one of them, and that will not change no matter what.” They stand up when they say so.
Kosha and his producer Tom Rogers, a longtime technology and media executive (he founded CNBC while running NBC Cable), with Odysseus: Falling They are looking to promote their AI-powered video production software.
Rogers, CEO of Fountain 0 and Executive Producer of Odysseus: The Fall, While democratizing filmmaking with AI tools and a proprietary video production process, he said, “We wanted to provide a basis for comparison in the same time frame with film (Odyssey) coming from one of the most respected directors in the world, so moviegoers may be curious enough to see both films developed from the same classic story as a way to better understand the level at which AI can actually contribute to the art of filmmaking, and increase the amount of high-quality films that can be delivered to audiences.
and Pouya Kosha, producer and post-producer Odysseus: The Fall, He pointed to Chinese AI video generator software Kling that was used to make the title for the second Fountain O movie after Sora AI video creation software — which also creates videos and short films from user prompts — was shut down by OpenAI. Chinese AI tools are being increasingly used as companies look to reduce billing costs for AI in manufacturing operations.
“We can’t give enough praise for our AI model, Kling, which is what we used to develop the image rendering for each scene. We discover through experience with each film that we are creating new tools and techniques that enable us to overcome challenges that put our filmmaking at the forefront of how to create an AI film on the same level as any human production,” Pouya Kosha said in his statement.
The AI-generated feature also uses Google Nanobanana for images and keyframes, Claude AI for language-related editing, and Google Gemini for project research. Proprietary Fountain 0 technology was used for actor blocking, frame accuracy and global modeling.
The Kosha brothers were born in Iran and left the country in 2009. They are also no strangers to cloud computing and AI technology, having founded Claigrid, a cloud AI customization company with Tom Rogers as its CEO.
To date, no broadcaster or theatrical distributor has been selected Violet dreams For the commercial release after shopping around for Tribeca titles. For now, Fountain will make O Odysseus: Falling and Violet dreams Available to viewers to stream via the Fountain O website and a rental price of $9.99 per title.
Violet dreams It will be available to stream on July 17 and Odysseus: Falling It will be available later this summer.
