A New Movie Made by AI: "Odysseus: The Fall"

What is Fountain O?

Fountain O is a brand-new company that uses AI (which stands for artificial intelligence — think of a very smart computer program that can draw, write, and talk) to make full-length movies and TV shows all by itself. They just announced their second feature film, called Odysseus: The Fall.

Meet the Creator and His First AI Movie

• Ash Koosha is the person who started this AI movie adventure.
• His first AI-made film was Dream of Violets, a story about resistance in Iran.
• That first movie cost only $2,000 to make (that’s like pocket money compared to normal films).
• It was shown at a big film festival called Tribeca.
• Now, Ash is back with a new story based on an old Greek hero named Odysseus.
• The new movie had a budget in the "mid-five figures" (that means tens of thousands of dollars, still super tiny for a movie).

Riding Alongside a Giant Hollywood Movie

A famous director named Christopher Nolan is making a huge version of the same old story. His movie is called The Odyssey.

• It costs about $250 million (that’s 250,000,000 dollars!).
• It stars big actors like Matt Damon as Odysseus.
• It opens in theaters on July 17.

Fountain O announced their small AI movie on Tuesday, hoping to share the spotlight. Ash says:

“We very much hope that Christopher Nolan’s film is a raging success, and that our version might bring curious people to theaters to compare a human-made film with one man’s collaboration with AI.”

What Happens in Odysseus: The Fall?

The AI movie is 135 minutes long (that’s over two hours). Here is the simple story:

• It shows the mixed-up memories of a man who is drowning in his last minutes.
• His journey home is like a test, where every scary monster is actually something he created himself (the story says “every monster wears his own handwriting”).
• Without the label of being “clever,” he must face what he really did to get home.
• It ends not with a party for a hero (where songs stop), but with forgiveness from the one person who truly knows him.

How Was This AI Movie Made?

Normally, movies need actors, sets, and cameras. In this film, all those were replaced by AI models (computer-generated people and places). But a human still guided the creativity:

1. Ash Koosha wrote the script, designed the images, and voiced characters using his own human imagination.
2. They used a Chinese AI tool called Kling to paint every scene (they switched to Kling after another tool called Sora from OpenAI was turned off to save on costly AI bills).
3. They used Google Nanobanana for pictures and key frames.
4. They used Claude AI to help fix the language in the script.
5. They used Google Gemini to research the story.
6. Fountain O’s own special software helped place fake actors, keep frames accurate, and build the movie world.

Important Point: Ash Koosha says AI is not a threat to storytellers. He explains: “It’s a threat to nothing except distance — the distance between a person with a story and the means to tell it. More films will be made this way; that seems certain to me, the way it was certain once that anyone would be able to shoot on the camera in their pocket. What has to survive the change is the only thing that ever mattered: the story, and the reason for telling it. A tool has never made a film worth watching. A person with something urgent to say has made every one of them, and that won’t change, whatever they’re holding when they say it.”

Voices from the Team

• Tom Rogers (a tech and media veteran who founded CNBC while running NBC Cable) is the executive chairman of Fountain O. He says they want to democratize movie-making (that means let regular people make movies too) and give viewers a chance to see both the Nolan film and the AI film to understand what AI can already add to art and to the number of quality films.
• Pooya Koosha (Ash’s brother and producer) praises the Kling AI and says they are inventing new tricks to make AI movies as good as human-made ones.
• The Koosha brothers were born in Iran and left in 2009. Together with Tom Rogers, they also founded a cloud AI company called Claigrid (cloud means using internet computers).

Pictures and Trailer

The original announcement included a YouTube trailer video and two still pictures:

• One picture shows a scene from Odysseus: The Fall (credit: Fountain O).
• Another shows Matt Damon as Odysseus in Nolan’s The Odyssey (credit: Universal Pictures).

How Can You Watch These Movies?

So far, no big streaming service (like Netflix) or theater distributor has picked up Dream of Violets after it was shopped around. So Fountain O will show both movies on their own website:

• You can rent each movie for $9.99.
• Dreams of Violets will be available on July 17.
• Odysseus: The Fall will come later this summer.

Summary

Fountain O is a new AI-driven company making full movies with computer help. Their second film, Odysseus: The Fall, is a low-budget (tens of thousands) AI version of the Greek hero story, released around the same time as Christopher Nolan’s $250 million The Odyssey. The AI film was made using tools like Kling, Google Nanobanana, Claude, and Gemini, but guided by human creativity from Ash Koosha and his team. The goal is to let people compare and see that AI can help tell stories without replacing the storyteller. Both movies will be rentable on the Fountain O website soon.

FAQ

1. What does "AI-generated film" mean in kid terms?
It means a movie where the actors, places, and cameras are not real but drawn by a smart computer program, while a human still writes the story and directs the look.

2. How much cheaper is the AI movie than the Hollywood one?
Nolan’s movie costs about $250 million. The AI movie costs only tens of thousands — roughly 10,000 times less!

3. Who are the big stars in Nolan’s The Odyssey?
Matt Damon plays Odysseus, with Anne Hathaway as his wife Penelope, Tom Holland as his son Telemachus, plus Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Travis Scott, and Charlize Theron.

4. Can I watch the AI movies now?
Not yet. Dreams of Violets arrives July 17, and Odysseus: The Fall later this summer, both for $9.99 rental on the Fountain O website.

5. Will AI replace human movie directors?
The team says no — AI is just a tool like a pocket camera. The story and the reason for telling it must come from a human heart.