The Hairyman of Longbottom
The Hairyman of Longbottom is a Fully written Script by Laurence Glover, my business partner at Diffuse Studios.
Laurence has written many scripts. This project and three others we are actively in talks with well know interested parties. In order to bring the idea to life and help pitch the film we began the process of devloping the film using AI. The idea of using AI here is merely to get a sense of the characters and the world.
We fully intend to cast real actors and shoot this film for real and are merely using AI in the pre-sales and pre production phase of the project.
Once we have the story, every film we make starts with the characters / cast.
We spend time imagining what they look like and what their background is so we can see if they work.
Then we look at the world and locations and secondary characters.
Below are character sheets developed to be fed into the AI video models
The Story
The Hairyman of Longbottom is a genre-bending comedy creature feature that blends film industry satire with escalating rural folklore.
The story follows Ian Castle, a self-absorbed, fading actor whose career is already hanging by a thread when he is fired from a period film after a disastrous on-set meltdown. Humiliated and professionally adrift, Ian retreats with his old friend Dan, a talented but grounded special effects artist, to Dan’s remote family cottage in the Scottish Highlands—a place Ian once knew but has long since left behind.
The village of Longbottom is small, insular, and steeped in quiet superstition. Dan’s sister Bonnie, who runs the local pub, greets Ian with a mix of resentment and unresolved history, while the locals eye him with suspicion and mild contempt.
After a heavy night of drinking, the rebirth of the legend of the Hairyman is reborn. What begins as a laugh, quickly spirals into a full-blown phenomenon. The village fractures between sceptics and believers. As stories spread, sightings increase, and fear takes hold, Ian finds himself at the centre of a legend he accidentally created.
As the village descends into paranoia and the hunt intensifies, Ian is forced to confront both his own identity and the unintended consequences of his actions. No longer just a failing actor playing roles, he becomes a reluctant symbol—of fear, myth, and something uncontrollable.