AI studio Fountain 0 released Odysseus: The Fall on 16 September. It is a feature-length retelling of Homer's Odyssey in which every image is AI-generated. The film runs 150 minutes and rents for $9.99 on the studio's own streaming site, next to its earlier feature Dreams of Violets. The soundtrack was released on Spotify the same day. A new trailer went up on YouTube, and the studio pitches the film both to viewers who liked Nolan's version and to people curious how far AI filmmaking has come.
The studio presents the film as essentially one person's work. Fountain 0 co-founder Ash Koosha wrote, directed and produced it, as he did Dreams of Violets, working part-time for about four months. The company credits all the writing and creative development to him. The visuals came from its own studio software running on Kuaishou's Kling video model, and it says Kling also covered the film's token costs. Fountain 0 notes that the company's previous film, Dreams of Violets, premiered at Tribeca, and says it was praised for production quality and for dramatising events so soon after they happened, something it argues only AI allowed.
Thirteen real people lent their likenesses to the cast. Koosha plays Odysseus, co-founder and producer Pooya Koosha plays Eurylochus, and executive chairman Tom Rogers plays Mentor. The release points to the studio's recent deal with The View co-host Sunny Hostin to license her image for films based on her books. Fountain 0 says it is now screening other personalities and influencers through an online portal for similar deals that include a revenue share.
The timing is deliberate. The release aims the film at audiences who saw Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey this summer, and Rogers says people will inevitably compare the best of human filmmaking with the best AI film so far. His pitch is about scale. He claims 10,000 films of this quality could be made for what Nolan's cost, and credits the studio's software with keeping token spending low. The studio also argues that promoting films through influencers' followers can cut marketing costs.
On the craft side, Koosha says his version stays true to the poem while filling in parts of Odysseus's character that it leaves open. He says the studio engine has improved a lot since Dreams of Violets, especially for the story's supernatural scenes. His stated aim has long been a system that lets a couple of people make films at the highest level for very little money, and he now wants other storytellers to have the same chance. Pooya Koosha says writer-director teams can now use the software with little training. He describes the engine as three stages covering pre-production, image generation and post-production, meant to turn artistic choices into technical instructions. He says Kling was chosen over other models for control and consistency, especially on faces and skin, which made directing feel closer to a real set, and that its 3.0 series outputs native 4K.
Koosha also works in AI music. The film's lead song reworks the Seikilos Epitaph, an ancient Greek piece regarded as the oldest surviving composition with both its words and its melody. The release calls the film proof that two people can reach top-tier production quality at low cost. That claim comes from the studio's own announcement.
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