Original Coverage & Source Attribution: deadline.com
Popular YouTuber Gossip Goblin, aka Zack London, has released the trailer for his forthcoming film Gods Don’t Give Gifts, a feature film made entirely with artificial intelligence.
The sci-fi film will open in limited theatrical release in the U.S. and UK on December 4. The filmmakers say the theatrical engagement will be a milestone for a fully AI feature, adding that it is the first AI film to receive an MPA rating (R) and also to be campaigned in the Best Animated Feature category at the Academy Awards.
The trailer will go to theaters on Friday, along with lobby posters, and billboard ads are due to begin in November.
Full of trippy visuals matching London’s other work, Gods Don’t Give Gifts is billed as taking place in the “science-fiction, horror-tinged world of the ‘Second Cycle of Humanity’ where transhumanism has accelerated to the point that humanity looks very different.”
The film, which was previewed last month at the Venice Film Festival market, is produced by Edward Saatchi. Fable, Saatchi’s AI company, counts Amazon among its backers.
The filmmakers hope to draw interest in a market that has taken notice of YouTube creators in a big way over the past year, with significant grosses pulled in by the likes of Obsession, Backrooms and Iron Lung.
Over the past five years, Saatchi said in a statement, “the question has been when will an AI film win an Oscar? Gods Don’t Give Gifts is the first that has a shot at a nomination and then it’s all to play for. We will be screening for voters and running a traditional campaign. It’s objectively a seminal, historic moment in animation – and we feel it could be this generation’s Toy Story – the fact that this generation’s Toy Story is a dark, satirical, brutal and bold statement on all 2026’s fears about AI and our species’ future is an appropriate commentary on the questions we are all confronting as a society.”
