Musk: Grok to Make 'Historically Accurate' AI Odyssey Film
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- Elon Musk posted on X that Grok Imagine will create a full-length 'historically accurate' movie adaptation of Homer's Odyssey before 2026 ends, sharing a 3-minute AI-generated short posted by another X user.
- Musk had previously attacked Christopher Nolan's casting of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, calling Nolan 'an anti-White racist' in March; the AI short he shared featured an all-white cast.
- Musk also circulated transphobic posts about Elliot Page, who plays Sinon in Nolan's film (not Achilles, as many initially assumed).
- Nolan's The Odyssey earned $264 million in its worldwide opening weekend and appears set to become Nolan's highest-grossing film, despite Musk's pre-release campaign against its casting.
- The original Odyssey is a roughly 2,800-year-old work of fiction featuring cyclops and six-headed monsters, making any 'historically accurate' retelling inherently paradoxical.
Why it matters: Musk's 'historically accurate' claim — applied to a 2,800-year-old fiction featuring cyclops and six-headed monsters — reveals the real standard is casting, not history: the AI short he shared is all-white, mirroring his March attacks on Nolan's diverse casting of Lupita Nyong'o as Helen. Nolan's film still opened to $264M globally despite Musk's pre-release campaign.
