Thus, Elon Musk’s opposing positionOdyssey The campaign continues: The recently named X owner and trillionaire has pledged that his AI-powered social media bot, Grok, will make “an entire movie about… Odyssey “This is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer” before the end of the year.
His post on Wednesday was accompanied by a short, three-minute AI-generated clip, which a follower made using Grok Imagine.
It comes as the South African businessman continues to rally his supporters in a veritable culture war over Christopher Nolan’s box office giant. His commentary on the film dates back to January, when rumors of Lupita Nyong’o’s casting as Helen of Troy first began circulating. Nolan and Hollywood have been criticized for their “sanitary” agenda, despite widespread acknowledgment from actual historians that Homer’s work is, of course, a piece of fiction.
Before the end of this year, Grok Imagine will make a full movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to Homer’s art https://t.co/bV HzUmY9WN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026
In May, Musk approved of a racist comment made by a far-right journalist that targeted the Oscar-winning actress: “We were told that we should not object to the portrayal of Helen of Troy as a black woman.” Daily WireMatt Walsh. “However, if a major Hollywood studio made a movie set in Africa, and cast a white woman as ‘the most beautiful woman in Africa’, those same people would riot in the street. If Sidney Sweeney, for example, were cast in this role, they would be forced to commit acts of murderous violence. We all know that is the case.”
“This is absolutely true. Such hypocrisy in Hollywood,” Musk shared via the comments section of Walsh’s post.
It’s not the only ad the Tesla and SpaceX founder has taken issue with. When rumors surfaced that trans actor Elliot Page might play Achilles, he reacted even more forcefully, saying: “One of the stupidest, most perverted things I’ve ever heard.” (Musk, who has a transgender daughter from his first marriage, Vivienne Gina Wilson, has historically made transphobic attacks against his daughter. She has broken off her relationship with him.) It’s also worth noting that Page doesn’t play Achilles in Nolan’s film — he portrays Sinon, a Greek soldier who is incorporated into the story from Virgil’s epic poem. The Aeneid.
So, it’s not entirely surprising that Musk is trying to make a product of his own Odyssey With what will be — judging from the short snippet he reposted on Wednesday — an all-white cast. Grok Imagine’s retelling of Homer’s epic would likely make Nolan’s feat seem more of a masterpiece, especially since it was shot entirely on Imax film and used very little computer-generated imagery.
Nolan himself has described the backlash over historical accuracy as “irrelevant.” “It comes with the territory… These conversations that happen before people see the movie — they’re always irrelevant, because no one knows what the movie actually is yet,” he said.
Despite all the anger that Musk caused around him OdysseyHowever, the film did not suffer significantly at the box office at all. The retelling of classic Greek mythology put the box office back on track over the weekend, earning $124.5 million on 3,900 screens in North America.
The film received a CinemaScore from audiences, and sailed away to the biggest live-action opening of 2026, with only Toy Story 5 ($159 million) and Super Mario Galaxy movie ($131 million) debuted above it. Odyssey It also had the highest R-rated opening of the year and the highest global release weekend ever for an R-rated film.
Globally, Odyssey It collected $264.1 million, adding $139.6 million from 73 international markets. The film marks Nolan’s biggest global opening ever, topping the charts The Dark Knight Rises’ $249 million global launch in 2012.
