Consumer AI video tools were built for social clips — and their rules prove it. They block practical gore. They block your actors' faces. And nothing they output comes with the paperwork a distributor asks for. Greenlit Dark exists for the footage your production actually needs. Here's exactly what that means.
Try prompting a consumer platform for a practical-gore gag, a throat cut, a body hitting pavement. You'll get a refusal — not because it's illegal, but because those platforms answer to advertisers and app stores. Your horror film answers to an audience.
Your project is approved at the script level — a human reads what you're making and scopes an agreement to it. Inside that scope, the footage your film needs gets generated: gore, violence, action, practical-effect extensions. No mystery filter deciding your third act.
The gore gag you can't afford to rig. The car hit you can't stage. The burning house you can't burn. Generated at 1080p for a few dollars a shot — priced in US dollars on the button before you click, never in tokens or credits. Failed generations are never charged.
We have a floor, in writing: no minors in harm's way rendered for its own sake, no real faces without releases, nothing meant for use outside your film. That floor is why the rest of this works — and why distributors trust the output.
Consumer platforms block real faces entirely — they have to, because they can't verify consent. We can, because we're a production service, not an app.
You send signed talent releases with your actors' reference photos. We clear each face for generation — scoped to your production and no one else's. From then on, your actual cast appears in your generated footage: stunts they never performed, effects they never sat through, reshoots without the reshoot.
That's the whole rule. We never generate a likeness we don't hold paper for — not a celebrity, not a public figure, not "we'll get the signature later." It protects your actors, and it protects your film when the lawyers come asking.
Every movie gets its own account, its own login, its own whitelist, its own files. Your cast's likenesses are never shared across projects — not even your own other projects. When your film wraps, that door closes.
Here's the part nobody tells you about AI footage: getting it generated is easy. Getting it PAST a distributor's errors-and-omissions review is the hard part — because E&O runs on paperwork, and consumer tools produce none.
Every delivered file sits on a stack of documents: the approved script, the signed releases behind every face, and a human review log — who watched it, when, and what they cleared. When distribution asks where your footage came from, the answer is a folder, not a shrug.
Nothing downloads until a person has watched it start to finish and cleared it. Until then, previews stream with a watermark burned into the pixels. That's not friction — that's the certificate. It's the reason this footage holds up where "I generated it somewhere" doesn't.
Micro-budget films die at the distribution desk more often than on set. A signed distribution deal is the whole game — and it goes to films whose deliverables are clean. We built the clean-deliverables machine so your budget doesn't have to.
Send us your script. We'll tell you what we can do for it, what it costs in real dollars, and what we'll need to clear your cast.
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