{"id":13796,"date":"2026-07-22T18:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13796"},"modified":"2026-07-22T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T13:30:20","slug":"elon-musk-takes-on-chris-nolan-with-ai-generated-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=13796","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Takes on Chris Nolan with AI-Generated Odyssey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5744627\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5744627\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5744627\" src=\"https:\/\/am14.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Grok AI-generated Odyssey adaptation\/Elon Musk speaking on The Joe Rogan Experience \" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-1-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/am12.mediaite.com\/med\/cnt\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-1-768x402.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5744627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot via X (L)\/Screenshot via The Joe Rogan Experience (R)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> is teasing an AI-generated <em>Odyssey<\/em> adaptation to directly compete with the blockbuster <strong>Christopher Nolan<\/strong>-directed film, which has faced a wave of right-wing backlash for being too \u201cwoke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBefore this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of <em>The Odyssey<\/em> that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,\u201d Musk wrote in a Wednesday message on X in response to a three-minute, AI-generated clip of <em>The Odyssey<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"2db537e8a813a2619b1f8376bb7b5d55\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bVHzUmY9WN\">https:\/\/t.co\/bVHzUmY9WN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2079758604656316619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Critics have been mocking Musk over his \u201chistorically accurate\u201d declaration, noting <em>Odyssey<\/em> includes a cyclops and more fantasy elements. Others have dragged the X owner for relying on AI when he has the funds to potentially just finance his own adaptation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"96efebe1df8771b9719335adc1809eaa\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cHistorically accurate.\u201d There is a cyclops.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Scott Barber (@thescottbarber) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thescottbarber\/status\/2079765941316137039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"5aa61aa4fecdc3155c65551e7086baf5\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You&#8217;re so close please do not have Grok do it<\/p>\n<p>Please just pay someone talented to make an actual movie <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nn65pJItZV\">https:\/\/t.co\/nn65pJItZV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bennett&#8217;s Phylactery (@extradeadjcb) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/extradeadjcb\/status\/2079909858661503315?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"4763db6d52696b007bb430c5a3ab8fb8\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Another day on Musk X \u2013 selling AI control step-by-step. Elon Musk and &#8216;historically accurate&#8217; in the same sentence. Must be some mistake. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eAjRTbtCed\">https:\/\/t.co\/eAjRTbtCed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Icke (@davidicke) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/davidicke\/status\/2079831474757304401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"eb5ae76facb17a076182441b9bced686\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought he said he would pay $100M to have a movie made? Guess he\u2019s just making it with AI.<\/p>\n<p>Funny to see how some people who can fund art seem to just be content with bitching about movies they don\u2019t like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mjSViJAsj2\">https:\/\/t.co\/mjSViJAsj2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kino Corner (@thekinocorner) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thekinocorner\/status\/2079786122649968872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"0733fd388c4727567b374a8f56869f8e\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Best of luck putting your homework on film.  I&#8217;m sure everyone will enjoy the resulting 9 hour dramaless film\ud83e\udee1 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xD7GrnaGrx\">https:\/\/t.co\/xD7GrnaGrx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rambo Van Halen (@RamboVanHalen) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RamboVanHalen\/status\/2079811128868401485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"2df0a1c66040fd268d8c4647d43a2188\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will it be in Ancient Greek, running 12-15 hours? Because I don&#8217;t know what else &#8220;historically accurate&#8221; could mean, since these are all fictional characters traveling to mostly fictional locations. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cKznDqJYzh\">https:\/\/t.co\/cKznDqJYzh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jeremy Horpedahl \ud83e\udd5a\ud83d\udcc9 (@jmhorp) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jmhorp\/status\/2079894628430410209?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Musk and others have <a title=\"Trump Touts War Deaths Chart to Pat Himself on the Back Over Iran Casualties Compared to Vietnam and Korea\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/news\/trump-touts-war-deaths-chart-to-pat-himself-on-the-back-over-iran-casualties-compared-to-vietnam-and-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taken issue<\/a> with Nolan\u2019s <em>Odyssey<\/em>, which opened to more than $250 million worldwide, calling its casting woke. Critics are unhappy with the casting of transgender actor <strong>Elliott Page<\/strong>, as well as Black actress <strong>Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/strong> playing Helen of Troy.<\/p>\n<p>Musk claimed Nolan \u201cdesecrated\u201d <strong>Homer\u2019s<\/strong> poem and made it woke so he could be \u201celigible\u201d for Oscar attention.<\/p>\n<p>Some on the right, including Daily Wire founder <strong>Ben Shapiro<\/strong>, have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/ben-shapiro-tells-right-wing-critics-of-the-odyssey-they-are-dead-wrong-the-movie-is-a-masterpiece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broken with<\/a> the right-wing backlash and praised Nolan\u2019s movie.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News\u2019 <strong>Lara Trump<\/strong> and <strong>Griff Jenkins<\/strong> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/media\/tv\/lara-trump-and-fox-host-gush-over-chris-nolans-odyssey-amid-maga-uproar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gushed<\/a> over the epic while Nolan promoted the film on their network.<\/p>\n<p>Nolan has dismissed backlash to his film and its historical accuracy, modern dialect, and casting choices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComes with the territory,\u201d the director <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2026\/07\/10\/christopher-nolan-interview-odyssey-backlash\/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>The Telegraph<\/em>. \u201cBut look, these conversations that happen before people see the film \u2014 they\u2019re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Odyssey<\/em> earned an \u201cA\u201d rating from opening weekend audiences through Cinemascore. Additionally, its $120-plus million domestic opening weekend was the best for any live-action movie this year.<\/p>\n<p>In a Tuesday post to X, Musk appeared open to a non-AI-generated <em>Odyssey<\/em> adaptation, responding positively to one user suggesting he give $100 million to <strong>Mel Gibson<\/strong> to direct his own version.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed_container\" id=\"d0466dceecb03aff34cd1952d8f7ed68\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/martianwyrdlord\/status\/2079640327170728085?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d the user said, to which Musk replied, \u201cI\u2019m down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>New: The Mediaite One-Sheet &#8220;Newsletter of Newsletters&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>Your daily summary and analysis of what the many, many media newsletters are saying and reporting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/subscribe\">Subscribe now!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Screenshot via X (L)\/Screenshot via The Joe Rogan Experience (R) Elon Musk is teasing an AI-generated Odyssey adaptation to directly compete with the blockbuster Christopher Nolan-directed film, which has faced a wave of right-wing backlash for being too \u201cwoke.\u201d \u201cBefore this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/musk-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsweek-trending"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}