Fountain O, a new artificial intelligence-driven company launched to produce full-length AI generated films and TV series, has announced its second feature, Odysseus: The Fall.
Ash Koosha, creator of the earlier AI-generated Iranian resistance movie Dream of Violets that cost $2,000 to make and debuted at Tribeca, has returned with another live action tale budgeted at “mid-five figures” and based on the Greek hero Odysseus. Fountain O, unveiling the project on Tuesday, is looking to build audience buzz by piggy-backing on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey epic Greek epic adaptation budgeted at around $250 million for production and to hit theaters July 17.
“We very much hope that Christopher Nolan’s film, The Odyssey, is a raging success at the box office, and in some way that our version of the journey of Odysseus might further that success by bringing to theaters those who might not otherwise come out to see the film, simply because they are curious to see the ultimate in human creation and compare it to one man’s collaboration with AI,” Ash said in a statement.
Nolan’s epic The Odyssey stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, whose long journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War reunites him 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.
