Imagine a trio of bumbling, English lads who fantasize about becoming megastars while knocking back a few pints in a grimy pub somewhere in London. Picture the guys chortling and trying to one-up each other’s idealized visions of the future with a series of increasingly glitzy fantasies in which their fame leads to access to groupies and lavish parties on luxurious boats. Imagine these men are actually characters in a film — one filled with hyperkinetic smash cuts to action sequences in which they’re fighting or running from armed goons. This movie might be the sort of feature you’d expect from directors like Edgar Wright or Guy Ritchie. But all of this actually comes from Cully Hill Boys, the latest project from the AI filmmaking platform Higgsfield.
I looked inside an AI generated movie, and the best parts were all human
Higgsfield is using Cully Hill Boys to show you how to prompt up your own movie.
Cully Hill Boys is one of the few AI movies out this year that comes anywhere near close to looking and feeling like a traditionally produced feature. A large part of the movie’s strength is almost certainly rooted in how much Wright and Ritchie’s style has been baked into it, and it’s not just visual inspiration. In addition to posting Cully Hill Boys online, Higgsfield published many of the prompts that were used to make it. Several of those prompts mention Wright and Ritchie by name, which, along with a script written by a real screenwriter, underlines how the best parts of…
