The 2.5-Hour AI-Generated Odyssey Movie Is 2.5 Hours Too Long
Fountain 0 released Odysseus: The Fall on 16 September 2026, billing it as the first completely AI generated film produced at the level of a big budget Hollywood movie. The Verge’s Andrew Webster watched all 150 minutes and concluded it is “the opposite of a glimpse at the future of AI filmmaking.” This article covers what was actually made — Kling 3.0, four months part-time, thirteen licensed likenesses, a $9.99 browser-only rental — the specific continuity failures the review documents, the arithmetic behind the studio’s claim that 10,000 such films could be made for the cost of Christopher Nolan’s $1.684 billion blockbuster, and what the episode tells anyone evaluating generative video for real production work.