Neurowood Production
A Series and a Feature Film
8 episodes
Feature film for cinemas
Pilot premiere · Ramadan 2027
Al-Bukhari
The 9th century. A man with a perfect memory checks 600,000 testimonies to keep only the truth. A cognitive thriller about the creator of the strictest verification system in human history—told in an age that needs it again.
600,000 Hadiths—collected and Checked Over Sixteen Years
7,275 — included in his book. Only what he was absolutely certain of.
The Standard of Proof
1.2% — that was his standard. Today, in the age of social media, the world needs a standard this strict again.
I included in my book only what is authentic. And the authentic narrations I left out are more than those that entered.
Imam al-Bukhari
Muqaddima of Ibn al-Salah
Synopsis
He does not preach. He works.
Bukhara, the 9th century. A man with a phenomenal memory gives sixteen years to one task: check six hundred thousand hadiths—and keep only those that are certain beyond doubt.
His breakthrough: he verifies people, not just words. For him, every testimony is a chain of human lives. Who said it, and to whom? When? Could these two have met? Did any of them ever lie? Thousands of biographies held in one man’s memory—a living database, a thousand years before databases.
600
years before the printing press
1100
years before the internet
1200
years before fact-checking algorithms
16
years — one task
The Method · 9th Century
Five Conditions
and a Sixth — his Own
To be accepted as authentic, a testimony had to pass every gate. No exceptions.
ittisal
An unbroken chain
Every link named, person by person
1
ʻadala
Integrity of every narrator
A reputation built over a lifetime, not one statement
2
dabt
Precision of memory
The narrator does not confuse and does not invent
7A7A7A
3
shudhudh
No contradiction with stronger reports
Every version is checked against all others
4
ʻilla
No hidden defect
Expert review of invisible flaws
5
VI · His condition — beyond the five
A proven meeting · liqaʻ
"They lived at the same time" was not proof for him. Al-Bukhari demanded evidence that the narrators had actually met. Stricter than any of his contemporaries — including his own student.
6
This series is about the man who held that standard for sixteen years.
Conditions I–V were formalised by the classical science of hadith (Ibn al-Salah, al-Nawawi). Condition VI was al-Bukhari's own requirement.
Selection
Six gates
600 000
hadiths collected and checked
1
Unbrocken chain
2
Integrity of narrators
3
Precision of memory
4
No contradictions
5
No hidden defects
6
Meeting proven
7 275
included in the book · 1,2%
Why Now
The 9th century gave humanity a method of verification.
The 21st — the first age of mass synthetic lies.
Artificial intelligence has learned to generate images, voices and video that look real. For the first time in history, a fake needs no talent and no money
The reverse effect is growing too. When anything can be faked, even the genuine falls under doubt: any inconvenient evidence can now be called "generated".
Humanity has already invented the answer to this crisis. Twelve centuries ago. This project is about it.
24,5%
of people cannot tell a deepfake from a real video
iProov, global study, 2025
Risk #1
disinformation — the top global risk
WEF Global Risks Report, two years in a row: 2024 and 2025
62%
of executives have faced deepfake attacks
Gartner, 2025
The isnad is part of the religion. Were it not for the isnad, whoever wished would say whatever he wished.
Imam al-Bukhari
VIII century · Preface to Muslim's Sahih
Isnad — the chain of narrators behind every testimony. A formula spoken twelve centuries before deepfakes.
The Manifesto
Why is this project made with AI? On purpose.
AI did not make this film. AI is a tool in human hands. Like a camera. Like a brush. People make the decisions: ulama and historians fix the facts, writers build the drama, the director sets the frame — the image is the result of their work.
A tool cannot lie. It is the person holding it who lies — or tells the truth.
That is why we show our own chain. Every frame is labelled. The scholars are in the credits. The hero's method is applied to the film itself: every frame has its own isnad.
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9th-century sources
Board of scholars
Script and human decisions
AI frame · labelled
Viewer
The most honest cinema of the synthetic age is the one that does not pretend to be filmed.
The Project Code
Dignity before aesthetics
Ⅰ
Every episode is reviewed by a board of hadith scholars and historians. Not a single scene is built on material the canon disputes.
Ⅱ
The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ does not appear in this project in any form: no image, no silhouette, no shadow, no voice, no actor playing him. The words of the Prophet are heard only as the canonical text of a hadith — never as an actor's performance. This is an absolute rule of the project. At the centre of the story is Imam al-Bukhari: a scholar, his method and his time.
Ⅲ
If a narration did not enter his book, that does not mean it is false: the Imam himself said he left out other authentic hadiths. There is not a single scene in this project where canonical narrations are called fakes.
Ⅳ
AI removes production limits, but it does not make decisions. Authorship and the final word belong to people — documented at every stage.
The Scholarly Board of the Project
The board is open: we welcome respected scholars and academic institutions from other countries of the Islamic world — the legacy of Imam al-Bukhari belongs to the whole ummah.
The board's members will be announced before production begins
The script and every episode are reviewed by a scholarly board — hadith scholars and historians representing the key countries of the Islamic world:
Indonesia
Pakistan
Turkey
Saudi Arabia
Uzbekistan
Egypt
The hero’s homeland is ready for his return to the screen
2026
19 March — the President of Uzbekistan opens the Imam Bukhari Complex
45 ha
grounds of the complex in Samarkand
5 million
pilgrims a year — projected flow
10 000
worshippers in the mosque
4 × 75 м
minarets
14
domes
154
columns of the iwan
9
museum pavilions
16
truckloads of Herat marble
UNESCO · Samarkand · November 2025
The 43rd UNESCO General Conference was held in Samarkand — for the first time in 40 years outside Paris, and for the first time in Central Asia: about 190 countries, more than 100 heads of state and delegations. Among the initiatives Uzbekistan announced from the podium — a stronger global fight against disinformation.
The theme of this project was spoken from the UNESCO podium — 25 kilometres from the grave of the man who solved this problem twelve centuries ago.
"It is the most valuable of Islamic books after the Book of Allah."
Al-Dhahabi · historian of Islam · on Sahih al-Bukhari
His book is the most read in the Islamic world after the Quran.
The story of the man who created it has never been seen on screen.
The Audience
Demand is proven.
Supply does not exist.
Two billion people. The youngest, fastest-growing audience on the planet — and an almost empty market of premium historical content about its own heroes. We make content for this audience.
$336 bn
Islamic world media & entertainment by 2030
Up from $260 bn. DinarStandard, State of the Global Islamic Economy
71+ countries
the reach of one Turkish historical series
Ertugrul: 1.7 bn views on its Urdu YouTube channel alone. Daily Sabah · ISAS NUS
$75–100 m
the budget of «Muawiya» (MBC) — the biggest Arab series
The market pays top rates for its own history
The Technology
This project became possible only now
Historical drama is the most expensive genre on screen: eras, costumes, armies, cities that no longer exist. Here is what it costs in classical production:
Shōgun
$250 m
— $25 m per episode
The Crown
$648 m
— one dress: $37,000
The Rings of Power
$465 m
— one season
Muawiya
$75–100 m
— the record of Arab television
Rome (HBO)
cancelled
— even HBO could not carry the budget
Announced. Never made.
Great Islamic projects that never reached the camera:
«The Prophet» · Qatar, Alnoor Holdings
Majidi’s «Muhammad» trilogy
Pakistan — Uzbekistan, 2021
Babur · Ghalib · al-Bukhari · agreed at prime-minister level · never realised
imamalbukhari.org
an international film project · years in development
The pattern: the more a story matters to the Muslim world, the more its honest production costs — and the more often the project dies before the camera.
What AI production changes
10–50×
cheaper than classical production
8–9 mo
for 100 minutes of finished screen time
The Universe
Architects of Truth
«Al-Bukhari» is the first season, not a stand-alone series. The Golden Age of Islam gave the world words we still use: «algorithm» is a man’s name; «algebra» is a word from the title of his book. Every great mind of the era is a ready season: its own discipline, its own method, its own drama. One production line, one audience, one visual language.
Verification
Season I — in production
Imam al-Bukhari
The man who taught the world to verify its sources.
Algorithm
Al-Khwarizmi
The word «algorithm» is his name. «Algebra» is a word from the title of his book. Every algorithm on the planet carries his name.
Experiment
Ibn al-Haytham
He proved how human vision works — a pioneer of the experimental method. The UN and UNESCO dedicated the International Year of Light (2015) to the millennium of his Book of Optics.
Diagnostics
Ibn Sina
His Canon of Medicine was Europe’s medical textbook until the 17th century.
The economics of the universe
The pipeline gets cheaper
Costs
cities, costumes, character models and the pipeline of Season I carry over — every next season costs less than the one before
The audience carries over
Audience
73% of US box office in 2025 came from franchises; 8 of the year’s top 10 films were sequels; marketing a continuation costs 30–50% less
Universe is wider than screen
Scale
education, museum programmes (the complex museum — 9 pavilions — is a ready partner), documentary spin-offs
A position, not a project
Rights
entry at Season I is a position in the whole library: first-look rights to the universe’s continuations
An investor in Season I enters one series — and gets a position in a universe.
Plan — the roadmap
Two Ramadans
From a finished teaser to the premiere. Every step is tied to a date the whole Islamic world knows.
2026
Development
Scholarly board: ulama, historians.Story design, the pilot script,the production pipeline.A circle of anchor partners.
Ramadan 2027
Pilot premiere
Open release of the pilot episode:global reach and measurable numbers —the path proven by the biggesthistorical series of the region.
Ramadan 2028
Full season
8 episodes + a feature filmfor cinemas. Platforms of the regionand the world. The season decision —based on confirmed pilot numbers.
Partner entry windows
2026
Open · partners joining
Development partner
Entry on a finished teaser — no needto wait for the script. First partners are in.
Ramadan 2027
Pilot partners
Production of the pilot episodeand its global premiere.
Ramadan 2028
Season & release partners
The season, the feature film,platforms and theatrical release.
The earlier a partner joins the project, the more windows lie ahead.
Where the project is now
Concept & pitch
3-min teaser + site
Script
Package: director, board
Pre-production
Greenlight
A new-format film studio
Neurowood is an international AI-native studio of the full cycle: from script to distribution. In AI production since 2021 — before the genre became an industry. A team of 70+ specialists on four continents, including film professionals with long classical careers.
70+
team specialists on four continents
Since 2021
in AI production — from the genre’s first commercial projects
3–4 wks
from idea to proof of concept
Up to 9 mo
a feature film, end to end
The roles in this project are divided. Meaning belongs to the scholarly board and the authors: facts, the script and the hero’s image are approved by ulama, historians and dramatists. The studio’s part is technical and production work: image, sound, pipeline, schedule, budget.
For a hundred years, the budget decided cinema.
Production is now 10–50 times cheaper.
Now meaning decides.