{"id":14083,"date":"2026-07-23T01:14:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14083"},"modified":"2026-07-23T01:14:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:14:17","slug":"ai-will-create-historically-accurate-the-odyssey-by-end-of-2026-promises-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=14083","title":{"rendered":"AI will create historically accurate \u2018The Odyssey\u2019 by end of 2026, promises Elon Musk"},"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>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/tag\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> has claimed his Grok AI tool will create a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d full-length adaptation of Homer\u2019s <i>Odyssey<\/i> by the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/christopher-nolan\">Christopher Nolan<\/a>\u2018s film causing a sensation at the box office on its opening weekend, the tech billionaire made the promise on X today (July 22), after sharing a three-minute sequence created by the account Heavy Pulp using Grok Imagine.<\/p>\n<p>The scene depicts Odysseus and the nymph Calypso in a continuous handheld shot. Check it out below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I treat <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@grok<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/imagine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@imagine<\/a> like I would treat a real production from a real set.<\/p>\n<p>Two locked start frames: one over Calypso&#8217;s shoulder, one over Odysseus&#8217; shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>I reuse these as the launch images for the whole conversation, so the scene&#8217;s geometry never drifts on me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/64djGoahmK\">pic.twitter.com\/64djGoahmK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Heavy Pulp (@heavypulp) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/heavypulp\/status\/2079629059684782232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBefore this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of\u00a0<i>The Odyssey<\/i>\u00a0that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,\u201d Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" 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<p>Exactly what he considers a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d adaptation is unclear.\u00a0<i>The Odyssey<\/i>\u00a0is an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer and\u00a0believed to have been composed around the eighth century BC.<\/p>\n<p>Although its story takes place after the Trojan War, the poem is mythological and features gods, a cyclops, sirens, the six-headed sea monster\u00a0Scylla\u00a0and the goddess Circe, who transforms Odysseus\u2019 men into pigs.<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s announcement follows his repeated criticism of\u00a0Nolan\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/films\/the-odyssey\"><i>The Odyssey<\/i><\/a>, which was released in cinemas last Friday (July 17) and stars\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/matt-damon\">Matt Damon<\/a>\u00a0as Odysseus.<\/p>\n<p>Before the film\u2019s release, Musk\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/christopher-nolan-responds-to-irrelevant-backlash-over-the-odyssey-casting-3956807\">accused Nolan of being an \u201canti-white racist\u201d<\/a>\u00a0who had lost his \u201cintegrity\u201d by casting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/lupita-nyongo-responds-to-racist-backlash-over-helen-of-troy-casting-in-the-odyssey-3947554\">Lupita Nyong\u2019o<\/a> as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. He also supported transphobic posts about\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/artists\/elliot-page\">Elliot Page<\/a>, after some users incorrectly claimed that the actor had been cast as Achilles. Page plays the Greek soldier Sinon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/christopher-nolan-responds-to-irrelevant-backlash-over-the-odyssey-casting-3956807\">Nolan later dismissed the pre-release backlash as \u201cirrelevant\u201d<\/a>, explaining: \u201cNo one having [those conversations] knows what the film actually is yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat you have to do is\u00a0honour\u00a0the original text by interpreting it in the strongest way you personally can,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Odyssey | Official Trailer (Universal Pictures) - HD\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z9kZNzmdSQk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/christopher-nolan-ai-reaching-oppenheimer-moment-3469213\">Nolan has also spoken in the past about\u00a0his disdain for\u00a0the encroachment of AI into the film industry<\/a>, describing it as \u201cterrifying\u201d, and adding: \u201cIt has to be about accountability. We have to hold people accountable for what they do with the tools that they have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/lupita-nyongo-responds-to-racist-backlash-over-helen-of-troy-casting-in-the-odyssey-3947554\">Nyong\u2019o has defended Nolan\u2019s approach in <em>The Odyssey<\/em><\/a>, describing the source material as a \u201cmythological story\u201d and saying: \u201cOur cast is representative of the world. I\u2019m not spending my time thinking of a defence. The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the backlash,\u00a0<i>The Odyssey<\/i>\u00a0earned\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/film\/the-odyssey-biggest-live-action-film-2026-so-far-3957931\">$264million (\u00a3196million) during its opening weekend<\/a>, making it the biggest live-action film of 2026 so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/reviews\/film-reviews\/the-odyssey-review-christopher-nolan-matt-damon-anne-hathaway-3957159\">In a glowing five-star review<\/a>,\u00a0<i>NME<\/i>\u00a0wrote:\u00a0\u201cLess a case of them not making \u2018em\u00a0like they used to, watching the film leaves you with a sense that this sort of thing probably won\u2019t be made at all for too much longer \u2013 the sheer scale, ambition and weight of it seeming to belong to a different world already.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0hard to see how cinema can get much bigger than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>\n  !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n  {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n  n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n  if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n  n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n  t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n  s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n  'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('consent', 'revoke');\n  fbq('init', '370979561341328');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\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>Elon Musk has claimed his Grok AI tool will create a \u201chistorically accurate\u201d full-length adaptation of Homer\u2019s Odyssey by the end of 2026. 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