Show HN: An 84-Minute Sci-Fi Thriller Made with AI

Summary

A creator turned a screenplay into Deviant, an 84-minute science-fiction thriller about a tech mogul’s clone discovering an exploit in its own safety code. Character and set reference images were made with Midjourney and Nano Banana, while scene prompts based on the screenplay were used to generate most of the film in Google Veo. When Veo stopped working reliably, production was shelved until Seedance 2.5 became available in the United States through Higgsfield, allowing the creator to finish the final act. The last 20 minutes look noticeably better than the first 60, and the creator chose to release the uneven result rather than regenerate the entire film. Editing was done in iMovie and the audio was produced with ElevenLabs. The creator identifies actor performance, shot composition, character consistency, voice matching, and coherent interaction between more than two characters in one frame as the main problems.