What would have been a $150 million movie employing hundreds of people cost a fraction of that, featuring just one actor and a skeleton crew. While the result isn’t ready to be released—Bekmambetov says this is just a proof of concept—he’s convinced AI is going to upend the way people make movies. He’s even developing software that will allow anyone working on a film project to integrate AI into their work, creating a digital assistant to help each department. “I am 100% sure it’s a revolution. Not in cinema—in every industry,” he says from his home base of Cyprus. “We cannot stop it.”