AI platform Higgsfield releases feature-length film "Cully Hill Boys"

AI filmmaking service Higgsfield has published its latest project, "Cully Hill Boys," a film about three struggling rappers from East London who accidentally steal a crime lord's money. The movie was made using Higgsfield's Cinema Studio suite of tools, including its newly added Seedance 2.5 functionality.

The project was codirected by Adilet Abish and Aitore Zholdaskali, who previously worked on Higgsfield's earlier film "Hell Grind." It is based on a script originally written by Tim Planagan, which landed on the Black List screenplay submission service before Higgsfield acquired its AI production rights. Streamer Mikyle "N3on" Rafiq, content creator Matt Kiatipis, and UFC fighter Israel Adesanya "star" as avatars in the leading roles, having signed licensing agreements for use of their likenesses despite never shooting any scenes in person.

Human contribution remains central

A review of the film notes that its cohesion and pacing owe much to Planagan's professionally written script rather than to the AI technology itself. Several prompts used in production directly reference the filmmaking styles of directors Edgar Wright and Guy Ritchie, suggesting the underlying AI models were trained on footage resembling their work. Production involved multiple AI tools — Anthropic's Claude for generating prompts, Seedance 2.5 for video and speech generation, and ByteDance's Seedream along with Google's Nano Banana for image and video editing.

While the film is among the few AI productions that come close to traditionally produced feature quality, it still shows flaws, including unreadable text in books and a noticeable lack of chemistry between characters. According to the review, "Cully Hill Boys" functions more as a technology showcase aimed at normalizing the idea of AI-made movies than as a project ready for mainstream audiences.