Grimes will make her film debut in Gods Don’t Give Gifts, the first fully AI-generated feature heading to US theatres on 4 December. Directed by Zack London (Gossip Goblin), the sci-fi anthology features Grimes’ voice and likeness.
Grimes voices Zayinth Alda, a futuristic aristocrat on the fictional planet Niiro Cradle, where bodies are disposable, and consciousness is commodified. The AI-generated animation digitally recreates Grimes‘ likeness, and she helped design the character using her signature aesthetic.
AI studio Fable’s Gods Don’t Give Gifts features four stories on overcoming physical limits, following characters in a dystopian world of artificial bodies and transferred consciousness. YouTuber Mike Majlak also appears. The project highlights Grimes‘ ongoing work with AI, following her 2023 AI voice-cloning platform and preceding her upcoming album Psy Opera, set for 22 January 2027.
However, Gods Don’t Give Gifts faces backlash over AI’s role in cinema, artist ownership, and animator displacement. Director Zack London sees it as a creative experiment, while producer Edward Saatchi sees a new model for AI performances. Aiming for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, it marks a key US release for AI cinema ahead of its December 4 debut.
