{"id":70790,"date":"2026-07-22T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70790"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:49:00","slug":"elon-musk-claims-that-grok-will-make-historically-accurate-ai-movie-of-the-odyssey-before-the-end-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=70790","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Claims That Grok Will Make &#8216;Historically Accurate&#8217; AI Movie of The Odyssey Before the End of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Elon Musk has claimed that Grok will make an AI movie of The Odyssey \u201cthat is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,\u201d by the end of 2026. He did not make any claim about whether it would be any good.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Musk made the prediction while retweeting a 3-minute, AI-generated video of The Odyssey. \u201cBefore 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,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"light\">\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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 https:\/\/t.co\/bVHzUmY9WN<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Musk&#8217;s comment here comes as little surprise, given the X and Tesla owner was a vocal critic of Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey in the run up to its release in theaters. Much of the online backlash, such as it is, revolved around conservative complaints that Nolan&#8217;s The Odyssey would be \u201cwoke\u201d for starring transgender actor Elliot Page (Sinon), rapper Travis Scott (the Bard), and black actress Lupita Nyong&#8217;o (Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra).<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cThis is a mythological story,\u201d Nyong\u2019o said in May. \u201cI\u2019m very supportive of Chris\u2019 intention with it and with the version of this story that he is telling. Our cast is representative of the world. I\u2019m not spending my time thinking of a defense. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">She added: \u201cIt\u2019s quite something to be a part of The Odyssey, because it is so grand. It spans worlds. So that\u2019s why the cast is what it is. We\u2019re occupying the epic narrative of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-slideshow\"><button type=\"button\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"jsx-2228525885\"\/><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">The Odyssey Cast and Characters: Who&#8217;s Who in the Christopher Nolan Film<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img alt=\"Matt Damon as Odysseus&#10;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#10;Matt Damon stars in Nolan\u2019s adaptation of The Odyssey, playing Odysseus himself. Damon\u2019s name was the first to appear when word of this project surfaced, and his appearance in The Odyssey will mark the third time the Academy Award-winning actor has worked with Nolan following Interstellar and Oppenheimer. Odysseus, of course, is the Greek king of Ithaca who has been absent from his home for 20 years, having spent the first 10 years fighting (and winning via Trojan Horse) the Trojan War, and the latter 10 years trying and failing -- after landing on the bad side of the god Poseidon -- to get back home.\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"\/><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\" style=\"mask:url(https:\/\/kraken.ignimgs.com\/_next\/static\/media\/RightChevron.272be43c.svg?cors=1) no-repeat center center \/ contain;background:currentColor\"\/><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/output><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Based on the AI video he has retweeted, Musk would consider an all-white version of The Odyssey to be \u201chistorically accurate and true to the art of Homer.\u201d British accents seem okay, though.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Ahead of release, The Odyssey was debated across the internet for its <u>casting choices<\/u>, some of its <u>armor design<\/u>, and the decision to have <u>its characters speak with contemporary dialogue and in mostly modern American accents<\/u>. High-profile Greek translators have said they do not take issue with any of that. Rather, their gripes revolve around some of the character and story changes Nolan has made.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Prof Daniel Mendelsohn, whose translation of Homer&#8217;s poem was published last year, said at the UK&#8217;s Hay Festival in May that he was amused by &#8220;all of these bros suddenly worrying about Greek literature&#8221;. <u>According to a report in The Telegraph<\/u>, Mendelsohn said: &#8220;What&#8217;s so funny is that Helen has the tiniest role in The Odyssey\u2026 so the debate is particularly silly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><output class=\"box-wrapper jsx-2673806401\" data-cy=\"article-video\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Nolan himself will likely be unbothered by Musk and any threat from AI to The Odyssey. His adaptation blew away box office expectations with an opening weekend that brought home an incredible $264.064 million worldwide. The split puts the adaptation at a domestic haul of $124.5 million, with international markets accounting for the other $139.564 million. The global total marks Nolan&#8217;s biggest box office opening weekend ever, towering over his previous achievements, including The Dark Knight Rises at $249 million and The Dark Knight at $198 million.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The Odyssey is also critically acclaimed, with a 94% rating on Rotten Tomatoes&#8217; Tomatometer, and a 97% rating on its Popcornmeter. IGN&#8217;s The Odyssey review returned an 8\/10. We said: &#8220;The Odyssey adapts Homer through a new eye that brings a sense of horror and existential angst to the story \u2013 and some humor too. It may not be a perfect movie, but it\u2019s a pretty great moviegoing experience all the same.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Director Ash Koosha recently raised eyebrows for releasing a teaser for Odysseus: The Fall, another take on The Odyssey made entirely by AI. Nolan, meanwhile, has dismissed the tech. \u201cThe interesting thing with AI is I\u2019ve never seen a technology that\u2019s been so successfully adopted by Wall Street and by investors and by tech companies that the public has so thoroughly rejected,\u201d he told AFP in Paris.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cIt\u2019s just sort of an odd thing. Young people in particular, they coined this term \u2018AI slop\u2019,\u201d he added. \u201cThere\u2019s a sort of disdain for things AI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Photographer: Stefani Reynolds\/Bloomberg via Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Wesley is Director, News at IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/elon-musk-claims-that-before-the-end-of-2026-grok-will-make-a-full-length-ai-movie-of-the-odyssey-that-is-historically-accurate-and-true-to-the-art-of-homer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has claimed that Grok will make an AI movie of The Odyssey \u201cthat is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1188,520,5834,17724,7775,1543,5835,5301,791],"class_list":["post-70790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-accurate","tag-claims","tag-elon","tag-grok","tag-historically","tag-movie","tag-musk","tag-odyssey","tag-year","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}