My History-Making Collaboration With AI
The Invisible Everywhere: the story of how modern science shattered my atheism & opened my eyes to the existence of God.
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The Starting Line
Three years ago, when I began writing the script for my new movie, THE INVISIBLE EVERYWHERE - inspired by my bestselling book Believing Is Seeing - there wasn’t any of today’s hysteria about AI devastating Hollywood’s traditional filmmaking business. The first publicly available AI video generators - among them Runway, Kaiber, and Pika - were not widely known and not very good.
Naturally, therefore, I assumed I’d produce THE INVISIBLE EVERYWHERE the old fashioned way, the way I did my previous, award-winning family movie, LITTLE RED WAGON.
LITTLE RED WAGON cost me $8 million and took me four years and hundreds of people to make. It was released theatrically in the U.S. and abroad, then licensed to Walmart for 90 days, where the DVD hit the bestsellers list, then to Netflix for four years. Now, distributed by Lionsgate, the movie is on Amazon Prime, Fandango, Apple TV+ and other major streaming platforms.
But just when the script was complete and I was preparing to raise the necessary funding, out of the blue I had an experience that changed everything. It happened in late February, 2025, at roughly 4 am. I was still in bed when an urgent, inner voice said to me:
“Don’t wait! Make this movie right now, even if you have to use your iPhone camera to do it.”
I was completely taken aback because at that early hour of the morning I wasn’t thinking about the movie or much of anything else. Yet the directive was so persuasive I began purchasing the basic filmmaking equipment I figured I’d need to make the movie by myself - including a new iPhone.
About a week into this bizarre turn of events, however, while browsing the internet, I came across Runway. At that point, like most people, I’d never heard of AI video generators.
Intrigued, I prompted Runway’s free-trial version with a line from my script and waited. Less than a minute later it spit out a 5-second video, which honestly wasn’t very good. It’s what people today call “AI slop.”
Still, the scientist in me was sufficiently fascinated by the process that I began to tweak the prompt over and over again. I now realize that by doing so I was learning to communicate with an alien collaborator.
On about the fifteenth or sixteenth try, I finally hit the jackpot! Runway generated a 5-second video that completely blew me away. Not only did it conform to my vision of the particular scene, it transcended it.
That was the moment when I dared to wonder:
“Could I possibly use AI to produce a full-length movie?!”
After my wife and I prayed about it, I decided to give it a try. Little did I know I was committing to what would be one of the most grueling tasks of my life - on par with earning my 3D PhD in physics, math, and astronomy.