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A Deal with the Hockey Captain

Three rules, one rink, zero chance the fake stays fake.

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39 seconds · 6 shots
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The original

About A Deal with the Hockey Captain

The licensed A Deal with the Hockey Captain streams on ShortMax as a vertical micro-drama: minute-long episodes, a cliffhanger every cut, and a fake-relationship contract doing exactly what fake-relationship contracts always do. It’s one of the most-searched short-drama titles of the year, and the appeal is easy to read: a rules-first heroine, a captain with a reputation to launder, and a deal both of them are lying about.

This page doesn’t host any of it. The demo below rebuilds the show’s signature beat (cornered in a corridor, contract in hand, almost-kiss) as an original AI scene, so you can see how much of the genre’s pull survives with no studio attached.

Our version

We already made ours: 39 seconds, six shots

Our AI-generated demo: six shots cut together, with no footage from the original.

Three rules, one rink, zero chance the fake stays fake.

Sports-science student Nell needs after-hours ice time for her thesis; the team captain needs the league to believe he’s finally settled down. They draft the deal on a napkin: rink access for photographed dates, no feelings, everything ends at playoffs. By the third staged kiss the napkin lives in his wallet, and the only rule left standing is the one neither of them wrote down.

Fake DatingSports RomanceCampusSlow Burn
  1. Wide shot of a hockey player and a student in school uniform facing off in a locker-room corridor
    After practice: his jersey, her school blazer, one corridor.
  2. Her hand tucking a folded note into the waistband of his practice shorts
    The deal changes hands, folded into his waistband.
  3. The two leads forehead to forehead in a near-kiss against the corridor door
    The near-kiss the whole trope is built to delay.
  4. The hockey captain glancing back with a smile as he walks off down the dark corridor
    He walks off, and glances back.

How it's done

Make your own in three steps

  1. 01

    Cast with reference images

    Prepare a few clear pictures of your lead; the same face from two or three angles works best. Each clip starts from one of them, and reusing the same set keeps the face from drifting between shots.

  2. 02

    Write a prompt per shot

    One line per shot: location, light, physical action, camera feel. Start from the sample prompt in this section and swap in your own characters.

  3. 03

    Generate, then stitch

    Each free run gives you one 5-second vertical clip, so a scene means several runs and an edit. Ours took six shots to fill 39 seconds.

A licensed shootThis AI remake
Cast10–20 actorsA few reference images
SetRented locationsA prompt per shot
Budget$150K–300K a seriesFree trial runs
ScheduleWeeks of shoot daysMinutes a clip

Sample prompt

“Vertical short-drama scene: after practice, a hockey captain corners a student in the arena corridor; she slips a folded note into his waistband, playful tension collapsing into a near-kiss, cold fluorescent light with warm skin tones, handheld feel.”

One shot from our demo. Change the place or the people and run it through the generator.

Take it further: the full arc in three beats

  1. 01

    Cold open

    The napkin contract, shot from above: three rules in two handwritings. Rule three is already smudged.

  2. 02

    The turn

    A staged date goes off-script when his rival cuts in; the captain’s jealousy is real and the cameras catch it.

  3. 03

    Cliffhanger

    Playoffs eve. She finds her thesis notes annotated in his handwriting: every margin note is about her, not the sport.

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Questions

Before you hit generate

Where can I watch the full A Deal with the Hockey Captain?
On ShortMax. ai-drama.ai is an index: we catalog titles and link to their platforms, we don’t host episodes.
How was this demo scene actually made?
A small set of reference images of the two leads, a one-line prompt per shot (one of them is printed on this page), six 5-second clips generated with the tool at the top of the page, then a simple cut. Each clip took minutes; the scene took an evening.
Can AI keep the same faces across a whole series?
Character consistency is the hard part of AI drama. The practical fix is a fixed reference set: the same face from two or three angles, reused for every shot — most reference-to-video tools accept three or four images per subject. That’s how this demo works: compare the first and last frames above, same face, 37 seconds apart.
Do I need footage or scripts from the original to make a remake?
No, and you shouldn’t use them. Everything on this page was generated from our own reference images and shot prompts like the one shown above. You’re remaking the trope, not the copyrighted series.
What goes into a prompt to get this look?
Four ingredients per shot: the format (vertical short-drama scene), the location and light (arena corridor, cold fluorescents), the physical beat (a note slipped into a waistband, a near-kiss), and the camera feel (handheld). Every shot in the demo came from that recipe.

Rights: A Deal with the Hockey Captain is a ShortMax production; this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by ShortMax. The demo scene above is original, AI-generated work inspired by the same genre trope, and we used no footage, script, or character likeness from the licensed series to make it.