{"id":538933,"date":"2026-07-22T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538933\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:21:08","slug":"ai-feature-gods-dont-give-gifts-poised-to-make-next-leap-from-youtube-to-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/538933\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Feature &#8216;Gods Don&#8217;t Give Gifts&#8217; Poised To Make Next Leap From YouTube To Big Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA fully <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/ai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ai\" data-tag=\"ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI<\/a> film, Gods Don\u2019t Give Gifts, is poised to become the next feature to leap from a popular <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/youtube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_youtube\" data-tag=\"youtube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> channel to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tMakers of the sci-fi title said Wednesday it will open in several hundred movie theaters on October 30. The film is directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/zack-london\/\" id=\"auto-tag_zack-london\" data-tag=\"zack-london\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zack London<\/a>, who is known online as Gossip Goblin. The Gossip Goblin YouTube channel has 1.4 million subscribers and shorts posted there have drawn more than 1 billion views. London and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/edward-saatchi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_edward-saatchi\" data-tag=\"edward-saatchi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edward Saatchi<\/a>, founder of Amazon-backed AI firm <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/fable\/\" id=\"auto-tag_fable\" data-tag=\"fable\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fable<\/a>, intend for the project to join the ranks of Iron Lung, Backrooms and Obsession.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLondon said the film is \u201cabout what happens to ordinary human hungers and instincts when the physical limits around humanity starts to disappear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAll four of the stories contained within the film \u201clive inside that unease,\u201d he continued. \u201cThey follow people using strange tools to satisfy very primal needs, exploring the strange interplay and growing disconnect between the body and the mind. You might say the stories are dystopian, but the world doesn\u2019t end in them; there isn\u2019t an apocalyptic turning point, or some dramatic collapse. Despite the seeming horror of it all, the world just bumbles onwards. The systems and markets and technologies all work as intended, and humans generally seem to prosper as a whole \u2013 it\u2019s just that their humanity, at least as we know it, is fading towards extinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tGods \u201cwill move audiences,\u201d Saatchi said in a statement. \u201cIt is beautiful and exciting but deals in difficult themes around desire, the passage of time and the choices people make. This is a movie \u2013 and we\u2019re so excited for people to see it on the big screen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fully AI film, Gods Don\u2019t Give Gifts, is poised to become the next feature to leap from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,18287,154984,9268,265242,111,139,69,204731,145,4139,265243],"class_list":["post-538933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-distribution","tag-edward-saatchi","tag-fable","tag-gods-dont-give-gifts","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-specialty-box-offce","tag-technology","tag-youtube","tag-zack-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}