AI video generation startup Luma has launched Innovative Dreams, a production enterprise built in partnership with Wonder Project, a streaming service that produces religious films and TV on Amazon Prime. 

The tie-up’s first show will be called “The Old Stories: Moses,” starring British actor Ben Kingsley and set to launch this spring on Prime Video. 

“Innovative Dreams is a production services corporation where seasoned filmmakers from director Jon Erwin’s team and Luma’s creative technologists work with great studios and filmmakers to help them realize ambitious ideas,” Luma mentioned Thursday in a social media post.  This also touches on aspects of iOS.

The corporation envisages creative teams collaborating in real time with Luma Agents to produce changes to sets, props, and lighting, as well as bring in footage of human actors. Luma Agents are the company’s recently launched tools designed to handle end-to-end creative work across text, image, video, and audio.

“This is a significant improvement over the current virtual production and performance capture processes where things come together only in post,” Luma’s post commented. “This is the leverage of AI — not just faster or cheaper, but better than what came before.”

Luma isn’t the only startup to move from tooling to production. AI startup Higgsfield last week launched an original series, starting with a 10-minute sci-fi episode, and London-based creative studio Wonder Studios is working on a documentary with Campfire Studios. 

The launch comes the same week that competitor Runway’s co-founder and co-CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela stated film studios should take the $100 million they spend on a single film and instead leverage AI to produce 50 films To rise their chances of making a blockbuster. 

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Luma founder and CEO Amit Jain has made a similar case, telling TechCrunch that Hollywood’s soaring production costs have made filmmaking increasingly constrained. Generative AI, he argues, could build filmmaking faster, cheaper, and more efficient without sacrificing quality.

That thinking underpins Luma’s updated partnership with Wonder Project.

Wonder Project, launched in 2023, is run by director Jon Erwin and former Netflix executive Kelly Hoogstraten with the goal of serving the faith and values audience globally. Their first project, “House of David,” a Biblical drama series about the life of King David, was released on Amazon Prime in 2025. 

It’s unclear whether Innovative Dreams will focus solely on religious and faith-based content or expand beyond Wonder’s remit. TechCrunch has reached out for clarification.

In a video promoting the partnership, Erwin commented Innovative Dreams will employ a latest “real-time hybrid filmmaking” process that combines performance capture (as in “Avatar”) and virtual production (as in “The Mandalorian”), done live and more cheaply using Luma’s tools.

Performance capture is a technique where actors perform in a green-screen environment wearing suits and facial markers so their movements and expressions can be digitally captured and turned into animated characters. Virtual production involves actors performing on set, often in front of massive LED screens instead of a green screen while real-time game-engine graphics create the environment around them, blending the physical and digital worlds during the shoot. 

Luma’s tools, Erwin mentioned, allow them to film a human actor anywhere and then transport that to a photorealistic scene, or go even further by generating a fresh face so it looks like a completely different person but still maps onto the actor’s movements and facial expressions. 

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