There’s Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” out on Friday. There’s the AI-generated Michael Caine-narrated audiobook of Homer’s “The Odyssey,” released last month. Now, a third title based on the Greek epic has emerged: an AI-generated version of “The Odyssey.”
The latest Homer adaptation, “Odysseus: The Fall,” is a 135-minute AI-generated movie from AI film studio Fountain 0 and Ash Koosha, the director of the AI-generated docu-drama “Dreams of Violets” about the recent Iranian protests that premiered last month at the Tribeca Festival. Koosha worked on the project as he finalized “Dreams of Violets,” spending three months on a film focused squarely on the Greek hero whom Koosha idolized as a child. “Odysseus: The Fall” will be available to rent or buy from Fountain 0’s website later this summer.
“I’ve been just obsessed with it since I was a kid,” Koosha said in an interview. “One of the things that really drove me towards this story was the character of Odysseus himself, and my take on it — the feeling that I’ve had over the years reading different takes on it, and different translations — and my take was something that I just wanted to tell. And recently, when we did the first film, I realized this is the best time given the public discourse that exists out there as well.”
