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.

Higgsfield is using Cully Hill Boys to show you how to prompt up your own movie.

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.

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 these films are undeniably taken from actual human artists.

Cully Hill Boys tells the story of three struggling rappers from East London whose lives are turned upside down when they accidentally steal a crime lord’s money. The project is codirected by Adilet Abish and Aitore Zholdaskali — who also helmed Higgsfield’s Hell Grind feature — and is based on a script that was initially written by Tim Planagan before it landed on the Black List screenplay submission service for unproduced projects. After acquiring the script’s AI production rights, Higgsfield tapped streamer Mikyle “N3on” Rafiq , basketball content creator Matt Kiatipis , and UFC fighter Israel Adesanya to “star” as its leads. Though none of Cully Hill Boys ’ actors shot any scenes on set, each of them signed licensing agreements with Higgsfield for their likenesses to be used in the project. And while Planagan gave Higgsfield the ability to adapt this story using generative AI, he still retains the rights necessary for it to be produced traditionally.

Rather than trying to release Cully Hill Boys in theaters, Higgsfield — another service that sells access to various AI models — uploaded the film and most of its constituent prompts online in order to showcase what’s possible with its Cinema Studio suite of AI filmmaking tools . The film also functions as a gigantic ad for Higgsfield’s newly added Seedance 2.5 functionality, and to highlight new ways that studios can collaborate with digital creators.

What’s most striking about Cully Hill Boys as you begin to watch it is the way its story moves much in the same way most direct-to-video action / comedies usually do.