Higgsfield Releases 1 AI Movie With Creation Prompts to Showcase Seedance 2.5

2 articles · Updated · The Verge · Aug 13

Higgsfield put Cully Hill Boys online alongside many of the prompts used to make it, framing the release as a demonstration of its Cinema Studio tools and newly added Seedance 2.5 model.
The feature follows three East London rappers who steal a crime lord’s money, but its strongest elements came from human input—a Black List script by Tim Planagan and direction led by Adilet Abish and Aitore Zholdaskali.
30-second clip generation helped the film feel more coherent than many AI projects, though visible stitching, weak chemistry and garbled text still expose the limits of generative video.
Higgsfield said the workflow split tasks across Anthropic’s Claude, ByteDance’s Seedream, Google’s Nano Banana and Seedance 2.5, while licensed likenesses from Mikyle “N3on” Rafiq, Matt Kiatipis and Israel Adesanya supplied the leads.
Prompts referencing “GUY RITCHIE COVERAGE” and “Edgar Wright snap” underscored the broader tension: the film works as a polished proof of concept, but also highlights how AI moviemaking still leans heavily on human creators and existing styles.