This weekend will bring two different adaptations of The Odyssey.
One is Christopher Nolan’s $250 million epic. The other is a low-budget AI-generated film.
Odysseus: The Fall will arrive on July 17. Fountain O chose the same release date as Nolan’s The Odyssey.
The film’s creator, Ash Koosha, has a clear reason for the timing. He hopes his movie “furthers” the success of Nolan’s film.
He also wants audiences to “compare” the two projects. The Hollywood Reporter reported his comments.
Meanwhile, Odysseus: The Fall will be available to rent on Fountain O’s website. The rental price will be $9.99.
What we know about ‘Odysseus: The Fall’
The film, with a budget somewhere in the tens of thousands, will have a total runtime of 135 minutes.
Koosha has revealed that the film will be an alternate reading of the Greek text and will show the “the fractured memory of a drowning man in his final minutes,” as stated on Fountain O’s website.
This will be Koosha’s second AI-generated project, his first having been the docu-film Dream of Violets about the January 2026 Iranian crackdown on protests which premiered at the Tribeca film festival.
The Iranian filmmaker is, unsurprisingly, an avid supporter of generative AI, saying of AI-generated films in his director statement that “a person with something urgent to say has made every one of them”.
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