Will it be possible to generate a 1h+ movie from a book in 2026?
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2027
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In 2026, will there exist a program that takes as input a string, ex the text from a book, and produces an ~entertaining full-length (1h+) movie?

It is fine if it is noticeably AI-generated, so long as it does make the movie unwatchable. It is fine if it is not end-to-end, and uses language models to reformat the story for movie-prompting as a step in the generation.

For positive resolution, the program needs to respect the following desiderata:

  • Text-only story, not formatted for movie-script

  • 1h+

  • Substantial dialogue

  • Consistent character voices

  • Some music

  • Most people (as determined by a poll on twitter) find the movie somewhat entertaining; however, it needs to be entertaining by its quality rather than by how bad it is (ex The Room) or just because it's AI-generated

  • No human-in-the-loop

No need to have:

  • Perfect object-consistency

  • No weird image/audio artefacts, so long as they don't make the movie very annoying to watch

  • AI-generated music

  • Anyone having access to all the models used to generate the movie

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