On the final morning of Atlantis…

As Atlantis faces its final hours, Princess Ariane defies her father, King Asterion, and saves the young captive Iasos from sacrifice, taking with her the King’s Measure — an ancient instrument said to hold knowledge beyond the world of men.

As the sea withdraws and the city fractures, Ariane, Iasos and Captain Karnos flee a civilisation collapsing beneath its own pride.

When the ocean returns, duty, mercy and love are tested, while the Measure carries a mystery beyond Atlantis itself.

Directors’ Vision

The story came before the technology.

Atlantis has lived in our imagination since childhood. Our mother was fascinated by the legend, and one of her abiding memories was hearing our grandfather speak about the lost city. The film therefore begins not with technology, but with a story that has passed through our family — and a simple creative impulse: to bring Atlantis back to life.

The King’s Measure raised above Atlantis

We want Atlantis to feel like a lost 1954 Hollywood epic rediscovered in pristine CinemaScope — not a parody of the period, and not modern fantasy wearing a vintage filter. Monumental temples, bronze ornament, processional stairways, vast harbours and the physical grandeur of a studio-built world will be photographed with the colour, light, lenses and compositional discipline of mid-century spectacle.

Yet the film’s heart is intimate. Beneath the collapsing city is a story about a captive child, a princess who chooses mercy, and a soldier forced to decide whether loyalty means obeying an empire or preserving its humanity. The destruction of Atlantis matters because of the people inside it.

AI makes it possible for an independent filmmaking team to realise that scale, but it does not author the film. We approach generative systems as a collection of virtual production departments — tools directed through writing, design, performance choices, cinematography, editing, sound and constant human judgement. Every image must serve character, emotion and narrative.

Our aim is not to demonstrate what a machine can generate. It is to make a moving, visually ambitious film that could not have existed at this scale before. The technology expands the canvas; the filmmakers shape what appears upon it.

Story is, and will always remain, king.

Ian Higgins & Dominic Higgins — Writers, Directors, Editors & Producers

Introducing…

Valentina Valli
as Princess Ariane

Valentina Valli appears as Ariane, heir to Atlantis — and the woman whose final act of mercy defies the kingdom she was born to inherit.

A New Screen Legend
Created for cinema. Born from a new age. Valentina Valli is Pixel Revolution Films’ first original AI-created screen star, developed through human direction, writing, performance design, generative filmmaking, editing and post-production. She makes her motion-picture debut as Princess Ariane in Atlantis.

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Introducing…

Sterling Reeves
as Captain Karnos

Making his screen debut in Atlantis as Captain Karnos, Sterling Reeves brings an old-school leading-man presence to a role built around conflict rather than simple heroism.

Karnos is a soldier caught between duty to his king, loyalty to Atlantis and his love for Ariane as the civilisation around them begins to collapse. Opposite Valentina Valli, Reeves’ restrained performance gives much of the film’s final act its emotional tension: a man trying to remain dutiful even as everything he believes in is being taken from him.

A New Leading Man
Created as one of Pixel Revolution Films’ recurring virtual performers, Reeves is conceived in the tradition of the great mid-century screen actors — distinctive, charismatic and capable of carrying a character across different worlds and genres.

Atlantis marks the beginning of his screen history.

The Vision

A lost kind of epic,
reborn.

Not a modern fantasy wearing a vintage filter, but an attempt to recover the scale, texture and moral seriousness of the great mid-century CinemaScope epic — then reimagine it through the tools available now.

Story before spectacle

The script came first. Character, rhythm and emotional consequence lead every visual choice. The machinery serves the drama — never the other way round.

The handmade grandeur

Monumental sets, bronze armour, carbon-arc lighting, early anamorphic optics and the rich imperfection of mid-century colour film define the world.

Human taste still leads

AI can generate possibilities at remarkable speed. It cannot decide what has soul. Every frame is selected, rejected, shaped and finished through human judgement.

The Filmmakers

Built by a team that knows how films are finished.

Pixel Revolution Films is the independent UK production home of writer-director-producers Ian and Dominic Higgins. Working as a shared creative team, they write, direct, produce and edit their films together across live action, visual effects, AI-assisted restoration and fully generative cinema.

Their previous work includes the independent features The Shamrock Spitfire and All That Remains, alongside the AI-assisted projects Nagasaki and KAMI. Atlantis brings that production experience into one sustained, fully realised narrative world.

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