Fountain 0 Announces the release of Odysseus: The Fall, on Wednesday, September 16, the first completely AI generated film produced at the level of a big budget Hollywood movie
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NEW YORK and LONDON, Sept. 16, 2026
A new interpretation of Homer’s “The Odyssey” that will intrigue audiences who enjoyed Nolan’s “The Odyssey”, and fascinate tech curious audiences that want to see the highest level ever achieved of an AI generated film
The film is in its entirety a one-person creation by writer/director Ash Koosha
The film’s soundtrack is available as of today on Spotify
NEW YORK and LONDON, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Fountain 0, the leading AI movie studio, announced that today it is releasing Odysseus: The Fall, a version of Homer’s Odyssey that approaches the multidimensional story in all its depth and epic glory. Odysseus runs 150 minutes and a brand new trailer can now be found on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c75yg7_zLRE
Fountian 0 is the studio that created the first full length, live action film accepted by a major film festival with the world premiere of Dreams of Violets at the Tribeca Film Festival last month. The movie was very well received for both the quality of the production, and the fact that the subject matter could never have been captured in a film or made so close in time to the real events it dramatized, without having been generated by AI.
Ash Koosha, the writer/director/producer of Odysseus: The Fall was the sole creator of this film, as he was of Dreams of Violets. Ash is also co-founder of Fountain 0. This film also involved only part-time work by Ash over the course of four months. While every scene and image in the film is AI generated, all the writing and creative development of the film was the work of Ash just as in the Dreams of Violets film.
Ash Koosha stated, “The Odyssey is one of the most famous pieces of literature but a very challenging one to bring to the big screen. Scholars have offered many different perspectives of Odysseus’ journey, and the one my film offers is intended to both stay true to the original text while offering my own sense of Odysseus the man where the book itself leaves a number of aspects ambiguous and open to personal interpretation.”
Ash continued, “The Fountain 0 studio engine software, which for purposes of this movie, operated on top of the Kling video model, was improved dramatically from Dreams of Violets. It enabled the film to develop an extraordinary level of image creation of the many supernatural elements of Odysseus’ journey. I feel extremely confident that with our software tool at their disposal, writer/director teams will be able to produce spectacularly good films – in very short periods of time at extremely low cost – equivalent to the highest levels of human production as Fountain 0 ramps up its production offerings.”
Ash further elaborated: “It has always been my goal to create a system that could give a couple of people working together the ability to achieve the highest level of film production at incredibly low cost. Odysseus is undeniable proof that that aspiration has been achieved. Now my dream is to give all other storytellers the chance to do the same.”
Pooya Koosha, producer and post-producer of the film, and co-founder of Fountain 0, stated: “The Fountain 0 software that is the “secret sauce” responsible for the extremely high quality of Odysseus is now at a stage that it can be used by writer/director teams without any need for significant training. Our multi-layered cinematic intelligence system is powered by deep understanding of how to translate artistic elements into technical logic. The three elements that guide the film creator through of pre-production, image generation, and post-production enable total collaboration with the Fountain 0 engine such that creative teams can develop their films with complete autonomy. Of course, a top-notch video model is essential to the process, and we are extremely grateful to the AI model Kling for its valuable contributions and its underwriting of the token cost of the film.”
Tom Rogers, Executive Chairman of Fountain 0, and executive producer of the film, stated: “Nolan’s The Odyssey, created quite a cultural zeitgeist moment this summer given the very enthusiastic embrace that it got from audiences. We wanted to take the fascination with Homer’s story into the fall season with Odysseus: The Fall. The comparisons between the height of human film production and what so far is the height of AI generated film will be unavoidable. One key thing that should be kept in mind though is how AI generated film can democratize the movie industry and enable a spouting fountain of new movies to be created, and that 10,000 films of the quality of Odysseus: The Fall can now be created at the same cost of Nolan’s film. One of the huge breakthroughs of the Fountain 0 software is its ability to minimize token expense and thus reduce the cost of high-quality, full-length film production – with all the enhancements, additions, reimagining, and editing that involves – to levels no AI company has come close to achieving.
One of the key aspects of this film is that the image and likeness of thirteen real people were incorporated as actors in Odysseus. Ash Koosha’s image is used for the Odysseus character, Pooya Koosha for Eurylochus, and Tom Rogers for Mentor. Fountain 0 recently announced that Sunny Hostin, the co-anchor of The View (and six-time Emmy award winning journalist, attorney, and best-selling author), has entered into an agreement to license her image for appearances in upcoming films she would look to produce based on her books.
As part of Fountain 0’s strategic development, the company will be focusing its efforts on attracting other well-known personalities and influencers who would like to enter into image licensing agreements and participate in the revenue upside of upcoming Fountain 0 films. Fountain 0 has created an online portal to review and vet potential partners based on their interest in entering into licensing agreements.
Fountain 0 believes not only AI reduces the cost of production, but the cost of marketing films can be greatly reduced by social media marketing to the followers of major influencers.
Pooya Koosha explained: “Fountain 0 tested a range of AI video models and ultimately chose Kling AI for its stronger control and consistency, which allowed Ash to direct the film in a way that felt closer to working on a traditional production set. The Kling 3.0 model series introduced industry-first native 4K output, preserving fine visual details and enabling the highest quality cinematic shots. The Kling 3.0 series have strong capabilities that are especially important when working with faces, skin texture, and other production-sensitive elements.”
As of today, Odysseus: The Fall is now streaming at watch.fountain0.com, along with Dreams of Violets. The film is available for rent at a price of $9.99. Also released today is the soundtrack of the movie which will be available on Spotify. Ash Koosha has a deep history in the development of AI music. The lead song in the film is an interpretation of Seikilos Epitaph, an Ancient Greek song regarded as the oldest written musical composition for which both lyrics and melody survive.
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