Fountain 0 Sells a Feature-Length All-AI Odyssey Film for $9.99

Fountain 0 released Odysseus: The Fall, a feature it says was generated entirely with AI, on September 16 at a $9.99 rental on the studio's own site. It is the second film from the studio, after Dreams of Violets, which has also been streaming on the studio's own site since July.

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The release calls the film "the first completely AI generated film produced at the level of a big budget Hollywood movie," and says it runs 150 minutes. The runtime is the one figure that has moved: July coverage of the announcement put the film at 135 minutes, Rotten Tomatoes still lists 2h 15m, and The Verge's reviewer, watching the released film on September 16, described a 2.5-hour production, which matches the release.

Fountain 0 is the AI film studio behind Dreams of Violets, which it calls the first full-length, live-action film accepted by a major festival; it premiered at Tribeca this year. That film cost about $2,000 to make, according to The Hollywood Reporter, and no streamer or distributor picked it up.

The Fall was a one-person production. Ash Koosha, who co-founded the studio, wrote, directed and produced it. He worked part time on it for three months, he told Variety in July, and the September release says four. The budget sat in the "mid-five figures" and went mostly to cloud token credits, he told CBC News.

The release says the film used the image and likeness of thirteen real people as actors. Koosha's likeness plays Odysseus, his brother and producer Pooya Koosha plays Eurylochus, and executive chairman Tom Rogers plays Mentor. Variety reported twelve likenesses in July and said the people behind them share in the film's backend grosses. The same release points to a licensing deal with The View co-anchor Sunny Hostin, who has licensed her image for films she plans to produce from her books, and says the studio is recruiting other well-known people on the same terms.

The release names the Kling 3.0 series as the model behind the imagery and thanks Kling for "underwriting of the token cost of the film." The Hollywood Reporter adds Google's Nano Banana for imagery and core frames, Claude for language editing and Gemini for research, with Fountain 0's own software handling blocking, frame accuracy and world modeling.

Rogers, a founder of CNBC, is positioning the film against Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, which cost about $250 million and opened on July 17. In the release he argues that 10,000 films of this quality could now be made for what Nolan's film cost, then tells Variety plainly that nobody will think this one is better.

Reviewers agree with the second half. The Verge lists a cyclops whose height changes between shots, waves running against the wind, mouths moving without sound, oars bending as sailors row, a sword that becomes a dagger, and both Odysseus and Zeus pronounced wrong. Kotaku, previewing the film in July, called it 135 minutes of AI slop.

For anyone making video with these tools, the release is a price and a pipeline as much as a film: a Kling-based feature, one operator, direct-to-viewer rental at $9.99, and a criticism set that is mostly about continuity, which is the part of AI production that still costs money to fix.

Odysseus: The Fall rents for $9.99 at watch.fountain0.com, where Dreams of Violets is also streaming, and the soundtrack is on Spotify.

Film card

• Film: Odysseus: The Fall
• Studio: Fountain 0
• Writer/director: Ash Koosha
• Runtime: 150 minutes per the release; 2h 15m per Rotten Tomatoes
• Tools: Kling 3.0 series, Google Nano Banana, Claude, Google Gemini, Fountain 0's own engine
• Budget: mid-five figures, mostly cloud token credits
• Likenesses: thirteen per the release; twelve reported in July
• Released: September 16, 2026
• Price: $9.99 rental
• Watch: https://watch.fountain0.com/