AI film workflows: how Pablo Starr makes movies from 30-year-old scripts with no studio

AI for Founders with Ryan Estes · Oct 28, 2026 · 56m

A CGI artist once looked at Pablo Starr’s screenplay and told him he’d need someone like Steven Spielberg to greenlight it. Every minute of his evolved creatures, parrots grown into terror birds and bats that hunt by echolocation, would cost thousands of dollars. The script was 10 Million AD, and Pablo had been writing it since the 1990s.

Six years later, he made it himself.

Pablo is the founder of Brain Poison Studios, an independent studio turning his original sci-fi graphic novels into AI-made series. He’s also the owner of Fashion Week Online, a songwriter who spent 16 years in the LA…