Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make an AI 'Odyssey' film

generalJul 22, 2026624,930

Elon Musk said Grok Imagine will produce a “full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer” before the end of the year, writing that claim in a post on X and linking to a three-minute clip users said Grok Imagine generated showing Odysseus with the nymph Calypso. Musk made the vow while continuing to criticize Christopher Nolan’s recent Odyssey adaptation, which stars Matt Damon as Odysseus and Anne Hathaway as Penelope, and which Musk attacked over casting choices including Lupita Nyong'o and Elliot Page. Nolan’s film opened to strong commercial and critical results, earning US$264 million worldwide in its opening weekend and a 97 percent audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Nolan has pushed back against pre-release backlash and warned that AI will not “replace human beings wholesale and human creativity,” calling that idea nonsense and saying the technology has been rejected by the public. Musk’s post follows earlier reposts in which he denounced Nolan’s integrity and sought to rally critics of the casting; the Grok Imagine clip is the clearest sign he plans to use his AI tools to deliver an alternative adaptation within months.

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If you had told me 4 years ago that this headline would be real… I would’ve believed you. Good call.

Parker Molloy

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Thirty percent of Americans now say it was "inappropriate" to cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy. That opinion didn't exist a year ago. Somebody built it. New piece on the campaign against The Odyssey: what it failed to do, and what it actually accomplished. www.readtpa.com/p/where-did-...

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Parker Molloy69

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periwinkle55

30% of America hasn't even read The Odyssey

Breddy Tidgewater45

Personally I think it’s bad that like 30% of the writing on every major media release now is an update on what the racist-who-jacks-off-all-day has to say about it

Sheila Fyfe36

Dunno. She looks awfully beautiful to me.

🗝️🐍🦉🌙 Dolly 🗡️ Dagger 🍉🇺🇦📚🌈26

Meanwhile, they’ve never read the Odyssey and think it’s factual

Silky19

So the vast majority of Americans do not think so. A super-majority of them. We gotta stop listening to those sour-ass minorities in the US

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The Rude Pundit42

Buncha fucking assholes who need to touch grass.

Christopher Mims38

"The campaign against The Odyssey failed as a boycott but worked as a proof of concept"

Orlando B ✍️ COMMS OPEN26

What annoys me the most about all of this bs is how dishonest it is. You want to convince me that it's inappropriate to cast a black woman as Greek but it's fine that most of the cast is so pale that they look like they don't even belong in the Mediterranean? Get the fuck outta my face!

Rsquared14

It is 100% appropriate for Lupita Nyong'o to do whatever the fuck she wants at all times. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Claire McGing5

This discourse is absolutely ludicrous. Lupita Nyong'o is stunning and great casting for the role. As well as being racist AF from people who have never actually read The Odyssey.... Helen of Troy hatched from AN EGG.

randy4

the most exhausting thing about all this helen of troy drama is that the character has like 15 minutes of screentime in a 3 hour movie and most of it is as an out of focus background character

Mike4

Wasn't Helen of Troy supposed to be hot? If so, perfect casting

Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦4

There is no fixing crazy.

Michele Reeves4

Also, she can play anyone any time in any thing as far as I’m concerned!

calizaybak.bsky.social3

A character in the Hunger Games series was never described by race in the book for her they cast a black girl and these same people lost their damn minds about that because in THEIR mind the character was white so how dare others think differently?!!?

Mrs. Betty Bowers

@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social

"Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer."

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KevTheRev7

Homer was blind. A "historically accurate" Odyssey would be an audiobook in Ancient Greek.

Ben7

But Helen was supposed to be beautiful, a face that launched a thousand ships. That is a unit of measurement known as a "Helen." A milli-Helen is the amount of beauty needed to launch a single ship, and I believe we are looking at around 40 micro-Helens here.

Ryan Germann5

They should spell her name HO'LEN.

🌺HippiesRule🌺4

Ooooooo do Lord of the Rings next

Larry Tenney4

Imagine how much money he is paying her to stick it out through 2.0!

Not A Crook3

The Face That Launched 1,000 Shits

Miles Klee 🦉

@milesklee.bsky.social

Musk and his culture war chuds are somehow still crashing out over Nolan's Odyssey instead of moving on to the next outrage, weaving conspiracy theories about no-show ticketholders and churning out their own AI slop scenes based on Homer's epic.

38045d ago

Miles Klee 🦉94

I love how insane everyone is becoming.

Odd Future Wolfgang Pauli52

It's kind of similar to Taylor Swift. They really, really want Nolan as a white British guy whose past work could be interpreted as conservative to be their standard bearer for culture wars, just as Swift as a white woman who started in country should be a beacon of conservative white femininity.

Compassion Reigns Supreme5

In terms of sophistication GOP arguments are pre-musket

MODoubtingThomas3

In which language is their 'authentic' retelling going to be presented?

Ande2

Elon proves you can have all the money in the world, but it won’t stop the world laughing at you on a daily basis because you are soooooo incredibly sad & pathetic.

Gregory Boyd2

Earths Kitt as Helen of Troy with Orson Welles as Faustus. 1950.

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Coach Finstock200

Guy who made Batman and Inception needs to give away free tickets is one of the most incredible things I've ever read

Thanks For Sharing, Jerk6

It’s either this or admit that they lost the Culture War

Manisha Krishnan

@manishakrishnan.bsky.social

Between Elon Musk vowing to have Grok redo the Odyssey and the people convinced that ticket sales are a psyop, it's getting real sad out there. blog from @milesklee.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/the-od...

24845d ago

observablereality.bsky.social14

It always make me chuckle when the "fuck your feelings crowd" ends up HAVING feelings, but it turns out they are just "racism" and "misogyny".

Holli Winters2

How soon until Musk opens his own film studio to produce what he considers "historically accurate" movies? Of course, it is how he and the right see history. 🙄

La poune1

Also: Homer was likely a turkish looking fella. And the greek mythology system is inherited from mesopotamia and Egypt, and even earlier all the way from India. Athena was likely black or brown (if she had not been a myth)

UWS Pete1

I tried to buy tickets for the IMAX showing near me and the site kept crashing. Said come back later. I believe this is an op targeted at me.

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Rich Burroughs26

Miles reads this shit on X so we don’t have to @milesklee.bsky.social 🫡

Justin Baragona

@justinbaragona.bsky.social

The funniest thing about this, outside of the demand to see a "historically accurate" movie about Greek gods and sea monsters, is that Mel Gibson's Braveheart was notorious for being one of the most historically inaccurate movies ever made -- because it was largely based on a fictionalized poem.

Elon Musk fan boy tweets: I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.

Elon Musk then says "I'm down," prompting MAGA grifters to lose their shit.

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Vivian McCall13

In Mel Gibson's version, will the cyclops and pig transformations be historically accurate as well?

Craig Smith9

I like that the plan is to deliver it in "Homeric Greek," which I'm not sure that anyone actually knows how it actually sounded (?), with (I guess) subtitles? You got a money maker on your hand there, fella.

Lateralusian6

These dipshits say "accurate" but they mean "with only white people" or i guess they could just be that stupidly ignorant. Probably both.

FishingStepDad5

It’s the same crowd that thinks Apocalypto is an accurate representation of the Maya

Steve Mullis1

There are a dozen things to laugh at here, but "delivered in Homeric Greek" from dudes who likely never watch foreign-language films or read subtitles, is near the top.

🦂 Stephen THEE Scorpiono ♏️1

Nobody *loves* a good culture war now than me. But why, oh why, are their culture wars so stupid?

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Brandon Friedman95

Fun fact: The three main battles in Braveheart spanned 17 years in reality, from 1297 to 1314. William Wallace died in 1305.

Genie Lauren8

Mel Gibson is gonna put $50MM of it straight up his nose

✫✫LVN✫✫7

I’m actually super excited not to see this!

bro-bro ma 🌊3

also considering the odyssey they hated had a budget around $250M well, good luck with 100M

Pearl River Flow3

look, unpopular opinion alert, but I bet the 100 million dollar Elon-funded Mel Gibson Odyssey would be deranged in a FASCINATING way. You know his ego would demand that he go off-script from whatever Grok and Elon cooked up, wind up with something like Mediterranean Apocalypto. Lawsuits would fly.

Jason Karsh3

And the thing that comes through so loud in all their entitled whining is how much they want the safest, most mediocre slop imaginable. Can you imagine if your most exciting fantasy was inventing a robot that could turn Golden Corral into a movie? It’s depressing.

creamcityjw3

nice to see elon ready to burn $100mln because he'd rather do that than give anything to the federal government...

Morgan Le Fay ♋️ 7/142

Honestly, I think the funniest thing about this is saying to deliver the lines in "Homeric Greek" Them mothafuckas don't like reading subtitles but bout to do it for a whole movie in Greek? Yeah ok.

Haystack West 🤠2

Even funnier: revealing this to them only leads to them doubling down, because white is the only historical accuracy they know.

blawlz19.bsky.social2

have fun making and marketing an Epic (used literally here) on a budget of 100M.

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The Odyssey 🤝 Dead End: Paranormal Park Giving Elon Musk an aneurism

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Ivan Nemet2

They also both have "being very good" in common. But giving Apartheid Clyde a meltdown is a great sign of quality in general.

Felsic 🌲🏳️‍🌈🤼‍♀️🎮1

Wait, he actually took note of Paranormal Park, AND had a freakout about it? Bravo!

Sarah O’Connell

@sarahoconnellshow.com

It’s hilarious that the richest person in the world is losing his actual mind that a film starring an excellent, diverse cast, is also critically acclaimed, AND doing very well at the box office. metro.co.uk/2026/07/22/e...

12945d ago

Grant15

Being the world's richest human has convinced him he's the arbiter of everything including everything outside his wheelhouse. What a delusional, deranged Cretin.

sredwine.bsky.social11

Terrible viewing experience at the Musk/Gibson version due to attendees all wearing large white hoods

Dr. Tanya Lentz, R.Psych.10

He could be funding useful things but chooses to fund racism.

Kate Moss9

What the hell is wrong with these people?

newmexicoflyfisher.bsky.social4

And they call the left snowflakes. They are so easily triggered.

Tim Murphy3

Those two deserve each other.

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The Volatile Mermaid284

“I’ll fund the Odyssey as long as it’s an all-white cast and the lead hates Jews.”

Philo of Alexan28

See this is why I never delete anything

I had a pony!21

Mel sure turned out to be a goofy looking MF

TofuNYC 🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🇬🇱🚫👑🖕🧊16

I hope he makes this so we can all witness it bomb at the box office.

Metal Gear Solidarity10

I want him to make the Chudyssey. I want him to make it and fail in front of everyone.

TofuNYC 🏳️‍🌈🗽🇺🇦 🇬🇱🚫👑🖕🧊8

Remember how historically accurate Braveheart was? 🙄 Lmfao

Richard The S🌀d4

That prick can't overdose soon enough.

Milkdud3

🕯️Jim Caviezel as Odysseus 🕯️

Foot Clan Reject3

How I sleep knowing that for all my faults, I'm not as pathetic a sobbing loser as *checks notes* the richest man in human history:

Sardines2

The conservative mind is so funny. They’ve landed on Mel Gibson because of The Passion of the Christ, which makes him the “historical accuracy” guy in their minds. But he also made Braveheart.

Greg Pak

@gregpak.net

This white supremacist "A.i." slop sucks and Elon Musk is the biggest loser currently breathing on Planet Earth. Also I didn't know they had Pringles in Odyssey-Times.

12545d ago

Jon Phillips5

The fact that they had Pringles is just proof that Gene Wolfe was an immortal who has been shaping western civilization for far longer than we realized

Dodecadonuts4

That armor … those quick cuts … the siren’s costumes. It’s a return to the production values of the 70s with none of the charm. Ick.

Erik Burnham 💬3

Pringles are eternal. They were here before us, they will be here long after. But beyond that... how do these folks look less Mediterranean than Matt Damon? 😂

Kasey Gifford

@kaseygifford.bsky.social

Imagine being so angry that a revered director made a commercially successful film with a diverse (woke) cast you vow to show everyone a version of that film made completely of shit. www.irishstar.com/culture/ente...

10145d ago

Dare Arkin 🔞9

Eh, it'll be just like that technofascist "White Party" or "America Party" he was gonna make. He'll yell about it, realize it'd take actual work, give up, do more ketamine, piss himself, and then complain he's being persecuted.

HearthFox ΘΔ ➡️ Eufuria6

The right uses the word Woke more than we ever did. They love stealing and dog whistles

Jacob Davison5

Elon simultaneously trying to grift his AI program while doubling down on his ego, racism, and transphobia. A recipe for disaster.

jimmyboltonart.bsky.social4

This just affirms to me that whole appeal of generating AI art. Reactionaries don't have the talent or introspection to make good movies, so they steal other artist's talent and throw it into a machine where it could feed themselves slop that caters to them.

dawnfire @ everfreeNW3

this is, to use terms elon would understand, an epic self-own

tr273.bsky.social2

Presumably his version will feature the 'Hero' Elonysseus trying to get back to Mars. And on the way he has to deal with such challenges as: - Tax audits - Congressional Committees - Facts - His own Children publicly shunning him. Eventually he makes it home and lives with his Robots.

Annalee Newitz

@annaleen.bsky.social

Really excited for Grok to make the historically accurate version of The Faerie Queen next. Followed by the historically accurate version of Star Wars. variety.com/2026/film/gl...

10144d ago

Neil Mick7

And you just know the Grok historically accurate version of Lord of The Rings will be coming to a monitor near you, next.

Chad Briggs5

I'm hoping for a historically accurate Planet of the Apes

Charles Bergquist 2

Historically accurate SpongeBob SquarePants when

Lawrence Allan2

I’m so tired of newspapers and magazines doing PR for rich people. Musk is such a fabulist at this point, yet they keep printing his words like it’s fact.

Frantz Schoobert 🇨🇦🇺🇸2

« Historically accurate », you mean not in English maybe?

Name1

I'm sure Nolan is shaking in his boots. I

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Anthony Michael Kreis75

We also need a historically accurate depiction of Romulus and Remus nursing from the gentle she-wolf.

Hailey Kaas - Cancer fund ($10/$750)4

Let's also not forget to ask for the historically accurate version of The Jetsons!

RanTLaw2

Thor is ready for a historically accurate telling

The Spaceshipper 🚀

@thespaceshipper.com

The Spaceshipper will make 'historically accurate' adaptation of Clarke's Space Odyssey oh please that's way too dumb, even for a joke. 🫪

9545d ago

Alexander Diehl1

2001 was probably almost white enough for Elron's taste

arcite.bsky.social1

this is like putting 1000 monkeys on a thousand type writers and expecting Shakespeare

Guardian US

@us.theguardian.com

After a bigoted online backlash, led by Elon Musk, The Odyssey achieved a monster weekend – the latest example of a targeted takedown that didn’t work

5445d ago

tjpboston50.bsky.social2

MAGAs did not read The Odyssey and never heard of Helen of Troy.

elwoodb.bsky.social2

It’s funny, I consider myself relatively plugged in and I didn’t hear, read, or see any of this musk generated“backlash”. All I heard was that everyone was psyched to see the film. Box office seems to reflect my experience. More proof that twitter isn’t real life.

You fascists bound to lose1

I think that x should be more of a cesspool that misogynists, fraudsters, Elon Musk and fascists should prevail. It’ll be absolutely irrelevant for the rest of us and Musk pissed away a lot of his fortune to own it.

smee73.bsky.social1

Fantastic movie to see on the big screen. It met all the hype.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

OMG: The racist pappification of culture with Musk's AI. Follow the link to his post to watch the video. Hilarious. Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

4745d ago

desertphilia.bsky.social11

How many fingers will Grok’s Odysseus have?

Katherine 🪴5

He's gonna be shocked when everyone in it is bisexual.

gracklehtx.bsky.social3

Waiting for Grok to do a historically accurate depiction of Narnia.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis3

Here, at the Other Place, is the laff riot video. x.com/heavypulp/st...

piglet421

Youtube link if you have the stomach: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMD0...

utah-misfit.bsky.social1

So, it’s just gonna make everyone white?

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Steve in Chicago25

I kind of love that someone ran a prompt through Grok, generated about a 1-minute clip and IMMEDIATELY, people were like "They're rowing the wrong way", "The wind isn't blowing consistently", "The oars aren't touching the water" and "Why is a character wearing a bright fluorescent earplug?"

Henrique M2

Grok vai fazer assim como a monga é um gorila de verdade

András Forgács W

@andraswf.bsky.social

no, elon musk will not make "a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer", he will forget about the whole thing in a week stop giving the guy any more space in your newspapers

4945d ago

Jesper Haglund1

Also, saying you're going to make a historically accurate Odyssey is like saying you're going to make a historically accurate Lord of the Rings. There ain't no such thing.