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