Elon Musk Says Grok Will Make an AI ‘Odyssey’ Film That Is ‘Historically Accurate’ by the End of the Year
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- Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Imagine will produce a full-length "historically accurate" AI-generated film of Homer's "The Odyssey" before the end of 2026, timed for awards season.
- Musk shared an AI-generated 3-minute short of "The Odyssey" with an all-white cast alongside the announcement, presumably reflecting his stated casting preferences.
- Musk had previously called Nolan "an anti-White racist" in March over the casting of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, claiming the choice was driven by awards ambitions.
- Musk also posted transphobic comments about Elliot Page, who was confirmed to play Sinon (not Achilles, as many initially assumed).
- Nolan's "The Odyssey" earned $264 million in its worldwide opening weekend and appears destined to become his highest-grossing film to date.
- Homer's "The Odyssey" is a nearly 2,800-year-old work of fiction featuring cyclops, six-headed monsters, and a witch who turns sailors into pigs, making "historical accuracy" claims inherently questionable.
Why it matters: Musk's promise to deliver a Grok-generated Odyssey by year-end directly challenges Nolan's live-action adaptation, which already opened to $264 million globally. By positioning his AI film as more faithful to Homer than Nolan's version, Musk reframes a dispute over casting into a broader claim about whose medium — a $200M-plus studio production or an AI tool — better serves the source material, though both are adapting a mythological epic, not a historical document.
