Fountain 0 announced Odysseus: The Fall on Tuesday, a 135-minute AI-generated feature from director Ash Koosha that retells the Odysseus story and will stream through the company’s website later this summer.
The project is Fountain 0’s second AI-made feature after Dreams of Violets, Koosha’s earlier Iranian resistance film that cost $2,000 to produce and premiered at Tribeca. Odysseus: The Fall was made on a mid-five-figure budget, according to the company, and is being positioned near the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a large-scale theatrical adaptation budgeted at about $250 million.
Fountain 0 is framing the timing as a point of comparison between traditional studio filmmaking and AI-assisted production. Nolan’s film stars Matt Damon as Odysseus, with Anne Hathaway as Penelope and Tom Holland as Telemachus. Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Jon Bernthal, Travis Scott and Charlize Theron are also part of the cast.
Koosha’s version takes a darker approach to the myth. A synopsis from Fountain 0 describes the film as centered on “the fractured memory of a drowning man in his final minutes — a voyage that is really a trial, where every monster wears his own handwriting.” The company says the story ends “not with a hero’s welcome, but with forgiveness offered by the one person who knows exactly what he is.”
As with Dreams of Violets, the production did not use traditional actors, physical sets or cameras. Koosha handled the script, images and character voices, while Fountain 0 used AI systems as part of the filmmaking process. The company said Kling was used for image rendering, Google Nanobanana for imagery and core frames, Claude AI for language-related editing and Google Gemini for research. Fountain 0’s own technology was used for actor blocking, frame accuracy and world modeling.
The project also serves as a showcase for the company’s production software. Tom Rogers, Fountain 0’s executive chairman and executive producer on Odysseus: The Fall, said the company wanted to give audiences a way to compare an AI-generated film with Nolan’s version of the same source material “in the same time frame.”
The release plan remains modest compared with a studio theatrical launch. Dreams of Violets has not secured a commercial release from a streamer or theatrical distributor after being shopped following Tribeca. For now, Fountain 0 plans to make both Dreams of Violets and Odysseus: The Fall available through its own website at a $9.99 rental price per title, with Dreams of Violets arriving July 17 and Odysseus: The Fall following later in the summer.
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