Eternal Holdings sets Dec 6 premiere for The Impossible Dream, the first fully AI-created rock opera with 40+ original songs

An AI-built rock opera with 40+ original songs, The Impossible Dream premieres Dec. 6 in Boynton Beach. It tracks punk icon Paco Gato through a fast rise, hard fall, and climb back.

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Eternal Holdings sets Dec. 6 premiere for The Impossible Dream - a fully AI-created rock opera with 40+ original songs

If you cover movies or music for a living, this one's going to land on your desk. A small Florida studio says it's finished a two-hour, cameo-packed rock opera built entirely with AI tools under human direction. It's called The Impossible Dream, and it premieres December 6 at Kabuki Boynton Beach at 5:30 p.m.

Here's the hook: the story follows a fictional punk icon, Paco Gato, through a fast rise, a hard fall, and a stubborn climb back. The film moves like a living mixtape-short, self-contained vignettes where a character shows up, sings one song that carries a full emotional beat, and exits. Then we're on to the next track.

There are 40-plus original songs in the movie, all written and produced by Eternal Holdings founder and CEO Lee Elman.

"Tommy at midnight" energy, but built with AI

"This is a cameo-driven, vignette-style rock opera inspired by that first midnight screening of Tommy in 1980," Elman told me. "Back then, I saw how one song could hold an entire story and then vanish. Now, with AI as our instrument, we can build that kind of experience at full feature length-fast enough and affordably enough for a small studio to do it."

That's the claim. And honestly, it's the part that'll make other indie producers listen: speed and cost without losing control of taste and story.

How they say AI actually shows up in the workflow

Generating and refining visual worlds and sequences quickly
Supporting music stem work: harmonies, arrangement ideas, and exploration
Streamlining editing, localization, and versioning for future global release

The result, Eternal says, feels like a hybrid: part live concert, part narrative movie. A proof that small teams can swing bigger than their budgets usually allow-without sanding off the human fingerprints.

Who's behind it

Elman's worked in TV (Party Heat on truTV, E-Force on Outdoor Life Network) and has been chewing on this idea for years. His favorite analogy: "There are two kinds of painters: the one (movies and tv series) who paints the Sistine Chapel, and the one who paints a bathroom-I said, 'I paint the best bathroom,'" he recalls. "With The Impossible Dream, I finally got to aim at the chapel. Leonardo painted the ceiling; this time, I painted the chapel bathroom with pride-using AI to reach a scale that used to be out of reach for a small team."

It's a funny line, sure. But it's also the subtext: AI as a way to make a bigger thing than your headcount would normally allow, while keeping the choices human.

Release plan and where to watch/listen

The premiere is set for December 6 in Boynton Beach, Florida. After that, Eternal is planning a digital rollout, with the feature targeting platforms like Amazon, Netflix, and Hulu later this year. We'll see how those conversations shake out, but that's the aim.

The full soundtrack is slated for Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube Music. You can hear it now on YouTube Music here: The Impossible Dream playlist.

Official updates on tickets, venue details, and the trailer will post at impossibledreammovie.com.

Note: This story includes one video. The player will appear below once added. For now, you can also watch on YouTube: The Impossible Dream on YouTube.

Why this matters for the industry

If the film holds up, the bigger story is the pipeline. Quick-turn visual development, flexible music iteration, and baked-in localization could mean leaner teams take more swings. Not a silver bullet-just a new way to assemble the pieces.

Here's what this could mean: more genre experiments, more niche stories that wouldn't clear a traditional budget meeting, and a soundtrack-driven format that actually fits how people stream music today. Maybe it's just timing, but the mixtape structure feels built for a clips-first, songs-shareable internet.

About Eternal Holdings

Eternal Holdings is an AI-first studio focused on original film, music, and education projects. The slate includes The Impossible Dream (AI rock opera), Santa and the Last Quagga (planned October 2026), The 56 Project (music-forward civics storytelling), and the Academic Intelligence portal, which the team says will become a fully interactive global education center called Eternal Bible.