AI can now turn films into something you can step inside
Instead of watching the story unfold, you talk to the characters and change what happens next
I've had this idea sitting in my notes for years: the cola wars, but as an actual war
WWI trenches, mud, artillery and every single soldier is a soda can. Coke red on one side, Pepsi blue on the other. Played completely straight, like a real war film
I finally made it a few weeks ago. 3 min, 67 shots
But a film only goes one way. You watch it, it ends, that's it. So when I got early access to InPlay's new Remix feature, I fed it the thing itself - the full script, and the character sheets I'd built for the soldiers.
That's the whole setup. It read my film and turned it into something I could walk into.
Then I played my own story as a character inside it.
There's a beat near the end where a dying Pepsi soldier says he's going home to marry her. In my cut, that line is a setup. He doesn't make it.
This time I talked him out of going over the top. He lived. The ending rewrote itself around him, and the joke I'd built the entire film toward just… never happened.
I wasn't picking from a menu of options. I was talking to him - and he talked back in a way I hadn't written.
That's the part I can't stop thinking about. I made the story, and it still surprised me.
Remix is in closed beta with a small group right now - opens up to more people around early August. If you make things, start thinking about what you'd want to break. #inplay