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film
2026
Science Fiction
Romance
Comedy
United States

Lucky Stars

Portrait of Hooroo JacksonHooroo Jackson202687 min

AIPopDB score
27/100
Format
Film
Year
2026
Views
5.6K

Synopsis

Princess Mora is tired of the rigid life of the crown and escapes it by stowing away on a starcruiser. Its pilot is Darin O'Joy, a charming rebel who is brave in action, cowardly in emotion, and has secrets of his own.

The two race across moonlit worlds with a relentless bounty hunter on their trail. Around them are a royal android, JC-123, whose threat-assessment is broken and whose loyalty is not, Mora's sister Princess Pola, the hollow Prince Fidge, and a pirate king who drinks tea.

Mora has to decide whether she can trust Darin with the truth of who she is, and with her heart. The tone is a romantic comedy inside a space opera, which its maker calls a futurist-melodrama. Because the story has ten complete endings (comic, tragic, cosmic, musical), how the choice resolves depends on which one is played.

Last Updated 5 November 2026

About the Show

Lucky Stars is a 2026 science-fiction romantic comedy written, directed, edited and produced by Hooroo Jackson. Its page gives the runtime as 87 minutes, in 1.33:1 and English, with United States as the country. Jackson uploaded the full film to his YouTube channel on 31 August 2026.

The film's description says it was made entirely by one person, with every image, performance, voice and note of music generated by machine, on a budget of $1,000. It features what Jackson calls his machine repertory company: Rogers as Prince Fidge and Joan as JC-123, billed as the first AI movie stars, each in their fifth consecutive feature with him. Mora's lead performance is blended from five machine voices. The makers' pages do not name the models or tools used.

Its hook is structure. Jackson presents it as the first film with ten complete, distinct endings. Viewers can pick one, be handed one at random by a randomizer site, or watch all ten back to back, and a separate upload of all ten endings is on his channel. He ties this to the Living, Breathing Cinema idea from his 2024 book The New Machine Cinema, and describes it as the next step after his earlier adaptive films: two complete versions in A Very Long Carriage Ride, an audience-selectable protagonist in My Boyfriend Is A Superhero!?, and a randomized ending in Strings.

Jackson released two teaser trailers before the film. The film's page quotes a review from Just for Movie Freaks, which says Jackson fully commits to the scale of building a galactic universe that combines science fiction, fantasy, adventure and some Star Wars-like flavour.

Still from Lucky Stars

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Still from Lucky Stars

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Still from Lucky Stars

Image: ytimg.com

Still from Lucky Stars

Image: ytimg.com

Fun Facts

Budget
The film's page and description state a budget of $1,000 for the whole film.
Source: hooroojackson.com
Ten endings
Jackson presents it as the first film with ten complete endings, played at random by a randomizer site or all in a row.
Source: luckystarsfilm.neocities.org
Machine repertory company
Jackson says Rogers and Joan, his AI performers, each appear in their fifth consecutive feature with him.
Source: youtube.com

Credits

Written by
Hooroo Jackson
Produced by
Hooroo Jackson

Cast & Crew