US EditionDarren Aronofsky AI Studio Primordial Soup Debuts Animated Revolutionary War Series
The AI-driven series combines generative visuals with SAG-AFTRA voices to mark the 250th anniversary of Revolutionary War events, releasing episodes weekly on Time's YouTube channel.
- On Thursday, Primordial Soup premiered On This Day& 1776, produced by Darren Aronofsky, with episodes dated January 1 and January 10 distributed on Time's YouTube channel.
- Aiming to blend storytelling and AI, Darren Aronofsky and Primordial Soup set out to reframe 1776 as a fragile experiment shaped by those who fought for it and explore lower-cost period production.
- The series employs SAG-AFTRA voice actors, a writers room led by Lucas Sussman, and Primordial Soup handles editing, mixing, and color grading with Salesforce backing the project.
- Critics and viewers noted uncanny AI artifacts and poor lip sync, with the first episode reaching 5,000 views and the second a little over 2,000, while social posts mocking the shorts spread widely and SAG-AFTRA actors were used amid industry pushback.
- Looking beyond the debut, the project tests whether AI can lower costs while preserving creativity, with Time Studios, Google DeepMind and Salesforce driving key industry debates on AI filmmaking.
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Darren Aronofsky has given us a gift we didn’t ask for, don’t want and definitely don’t need: an AI-generated series about the Revolutionary War. On This Day… 1776, produced through Aronofsky’s AI venture Primordial Soup, just dropped its first episode. And folks, it’s not good. The series, powered by Google DeepMind and set to roll out on Time Magazine’s YouTube channel throughout 2026, promises to dramatize pivotal moments from the Revolutiona…
TIME magazine, through its TIME Studios division, presented the series On This Day... 1776, a project that marks a milestone in entertainment, as it uses artificial generational intelligence to recreate the world two and a half centuries ago during the American Revolution. The launch is not fortuitous because it coincides with the commemoration of the Bisschicentennial (250 years) of the United States Independence of the British Crown and the ma…
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