Ash Koosha, creator of the AI-generated Iranian resistance movie Dream of Violets that cost $2,000 to make and debuted at Tribeca Fest.

Now he has returned with another live action tale budgeted at “mid-five figures” and based on the Greek hero Odysseus. Fountain O.

Unveiling the project, it is looking to build audience buzz by Nolan’s The Odyssey Greek epic adaptation budgeted at around $250 million, hitting theaters July 17.

“We hope that Nolan’s film, The Odyssey, is a raging success at the box office, and that our version of the journey of Odysseus might further that success by bringing to theaters viewers curious to compare it to one man’s collaboration with AI,” Ash stated.

The AI-generated Odysseus: The Fall, at 135 minutes, offers its take on Odysseus’ journey home.

It centers on “the fractured memory of a drowning man in his final minutes, voyage that is a trial, where every monster wears his own handwriting. Stripped of the word ‘clever,’ what remains is a man reckoning with what he did to get home.

It ends where the songs never go: not with a hero’s welcome, but with forgiveness offered by the one person who knows exactly what he is,” a synopsis from Fountain O reads.

Koosha argued storytellers should not feel threatened by AI tools.

“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.”

Koosha and producer Tom Rogers, a longtime tech and media executive (he founded CNBC while running NBC Cable), with Odysseus: The Fall are looking to promote their proprietary AI video production software.

Rogers, exec producer of Odysseus: The Fall, said while democratizing movie making by using AI tools and proprietary video production process, “we wanted to provide a basis of comparison in the same time frame with a movie (The Odyssey) coming from one of the world’s most revered directors, so moviegoers might be curious enough to see both films developed out of the same classic tale as a way to better understand the level at which AI is able to both contribute already to the art of filmmaking, and to increasing the amount of quality films that can be offered to the public”.

“We cannot offer enough praise for the AI model Kling, which is what we used to develop the image rendering of every scene. We are finding through experimentation with each film that we are creating new tools and techniques enabling us to overcome challenges that put our filmmaking at the ultimate cutting edge of how an AI movie can be created at the same level of any human production,” Pooya Koosha said in his own statement.

The AI-generated feature also used Google Nanobanana for imagery and core frames, Claude AI for language related editing and Google Gemini for project research.

The Fountain 0 proprietary tech was used for blocking actors, frame accuracy and world modeling.

The Koosha brothers were born in Iran and left the country in 2009.  They have founded Claigrid, a cloud AI personalization company with Tom Rogers as  exec chair.

Dreams of Violets will be available to stream on July 17, and Odysseus: The Fall will be available later this summer.