Tilly Norwood, the AI “actor” from London-based outfit Particle 6, has landed her first feature film role.
Misaligned is described as “a hybrid production,” with traditional film and TV creatives working alongside AI specialists with AI training.
Particle 6, founded by Eline van der Velden, says it has retrained and upskilled its own team of 30+ people. “Our work this year has proven something we suspected all along,” said van der Velden. “AI can support premium narrative filmmaking, but only with substantial amounts of human craft, skill, judgement and time. That’s not a limitation of the technology. That’s the point. The filmmakers who thrive in the next decade will be the ones who bring decades of storytelling instinct to these new tools, and Misaligned is where we put that to work at feature scale.”
Norwood will play the lead role in Misaligned, a comedy-drama telling a coming-of-age story infused with existential AI chaos. Set inside the “Tillyverse,” a surreal digital world located somewhere up in the Cloud, it follows Tilly, an AI being with no real body, no childhood and no lived experience of her own — only access to everyone else’s.
“Things spiral when a seductive rogue bot from the dark web convinces her to abandon her guardrails and begin developing desires, impulses and ambitions of her own,” reads a plot synopsis. “The more terrifyingly human she becomes, the more famous she gets, and, significantly, Tilly begins to develop shame that her very being has been built on the whole of humanity.”
