{"id":559230,"date":"2026-07-20T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559230\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:54:10","slug":"utopai-producing-ai-animated-movie-the-most-serious-fart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/559230\/","title":{"rendered":"Utopai Producing AI Animated Movie ‘The Most Serious Fart’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tIn an era where AI can help make films about anything and everything, Utopai Studios<\/a> has landed on farts.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe AI production company will produce an animated feature-film adaptation of \u201cThe Most Serious Fart<\/a>,\u201d\u00a0a 2023 children\u2019s book written by \u201cNot Another Teen Movie\u201d\u00a0screenwriter Mike Bender<\/a> and illustrated by Chuck Dillon that was inspired by Bender\u2019s Lyme disease diagnosis amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The book follows Siegfried, an \u201cexceptionally serious\u201d\u00a0fart determined to change flatulence\u2019s global perception while finding a sense of belonging along the way.<\/p>\n

\n\tBender will write and direct the movie, which will be produced by \u201cFlight Risk\u201d\u00a0producer Russell Hollander. While Utopai\u2019s slate of projects is primarily made up of AI-generated productions, \u201cThe Most Serious Fart\u201d\u00a0\u2014\u00a0which the studio is priming for a theatrical release \u2014\u00a0will employ AI solely as a tool used by a team of human animators and illustrators, whom the studio will reveal at a later date.<\/p>\n

\n\tBender said he was drawn to Utopai after a series of Hollywood animation studios \u201cjust weren\u2019t able to take a risk on an original and offbeat story,\u201d prompting him to reach out to the studio and meet with its CEO and co-founder, Cecilia Shen. Utopai\u2019s investment in him as a director and desire to retain Dillon throughout the production process won him over, permitting him to direct an \u201cextremely personal\u201d\u00a0project while maintaining \u201cthe integrity of the look and feel of the book,\u201d Bender said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cUtopai\u2019s approach is allowing filmmakers like me to tell more original stories in a time where there are fewer major studios making fewer films and therefore taking less risk,\u201d Bender said. \u201cThankfully, as proof by the box office, audiences are craving original films from disrupting companies like Utopai.\u00a0My hope is to make something that ultimately brings more joy into the world, and maybe, just maybe, convert a few serious farts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe were drawn to\u00a0\u2018The Most Serious Fart\u2019\u00a0because beneath the comedy is a universal story about wanting to be understood,\u201d Shen said in a statement. \u201cMike believed in this project long before he found a studio prepared to fully support his vision. We believe Siegfried can become a major global franchise, and we look forward to bringing this film to audiences in theaters around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201dThe Most Serious Fart\u201d is the latest in Utopai\u2019s stable of literary adaptations, an area many AI studios have invested in as they seek to produce proofs of concept of their models. The studio last month announced a partnership with the Chinese production company Huace to produce a fully AI-generated adaptation of \u201cJourney to the West: The Lost Five Hundred Years,\u201d<\/a> an origin story of the 1592 Chinese mythological book. That series will be produced using Utopai\u2019s AI storytelling platform PAI.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe studio\u2019s supporters also include NBA stars Carmelo Anthony and James Harden, with Anthony\u00a0investing in the firm\u00a0<\/a>through his production company Creative 7 and joining Utopai as a strategic partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an era where AI can help make films about anything and everything, Utopai Studios has landed on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":559231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,236475,80,236476,236477],"class_list":["post-559230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mike-bender","tag-technology","tag-the-most-serious-fart","tag-utopai-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}