Originally published by Dread Central on May 18, 2026. Written by Brad Miska.

Chuck Russell, Neumorphic AI and CINEGENai™ EP Anoush Sadegh Bring AI-Driven Sci-Fi to the Screen

Dread Central reports that Chuck Russell — the celebrated filmmaker behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Mask, Eraser, and The Blob — is embracing generative AI through his new company Neumorphic AI, partnering with generative video platform Higgsfield for two original sci-fi features: Hyperia and b.

CINEGENai™ Executive Producer Anoush Sadegh is attached to both projects alongside Elena Kaya as generative AI supervisor.

About the Projects

Hyperia centers on a fugitive thrown into a punishing hover-sled race on an extraterrestrial world governed by a rogue AI. b revisits a project that drew industry attention as the first feature to cast a humanoid robot in a leading role. That robot, Erica, was developed at the University of Osaka, and her creator Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro returns to the new production as android supervisor.

Both productions deploy AI tools across the entire pipeline — from worldbuilding and creature design through to VFX, editing, and post — while live actors shoot on LED volumes with AI-generated environments built around them.

In Their Own Words

“AI technologies are expanding the cinematic toolbox to a scale we’ve never had before. Bringing actors, directors, cinematographers, VFX artists, robotics and AI systems all working together within one creative pipeline.” — Chuck Russell

“Hyperia and b are not films with AI inside them. They are films born from a synthesis of human imagination, robotics and machine cognition. We are returning to a frontier we helped open, with the tools finally catching up to the vision.” — Sam Khoze, Neumorphic AI

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