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Elon Musk is claiming that Grok will make an 'Odyssey' movie
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey opened to $264 million globally over the weekend and is on course to become the highest-grossing movie he’s ever made. Elon Musk, however, still believes that counter-programming is required.
The world’s wealthiest person, who spent months attacking Christopher Nolan’s film on social media, announced this week that his AI tool Grok would produce a full-length feature film adaptation of Homer’s epic by the end of 2026.
“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,” Musk tweeted alongside an AI-generated three-minute short.
Musk specifically took issue with some of Nolan’s casting choices on The Odyssey, saying that “Chris Nolan is an anti-White racist” who cast Lupita Nyong’o because “he wants the awards.”
The rules that Musk claimed Nolan was trying to satisfy with his casting choices, however, were in place when he won a bevy of Oscars in 2023 for Oppenheimer with a virtually all-White cast. He also supported transphobic posts about Elliot Page playing Achilles — but Page was later confirmed to be playing Sinon and had less than five minutes of screentime.
Elon Musk announced Grok AI will make a “historically accurate” full-length Odyssey film by year’s end
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
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026
The “historically accurate” framing of The Odyssey is absurd in and of itself as Homer’s epic is a work of fiction featuring gods, a cyclops, giants, a witch who turns sailors into pigs, and a six-headed monster.
Luckily, Musk has a well-documented history of not delivering on promises he makes about his projects. He promised full self-driving Teslas by 2017, a million robotaxis on the road by 2020, and humans on Mars by 2024 — none of these came to fruition on the timelines he provided.
The Cybertruck was supposed to ship in late 2021 — it arrived two years later and with significant quality issues. The Boring Company was supposed to solve Los Angeles traffic but it wound up building just one tunnel in Las Vegas. X was set to become a WeChat-style “everything app” and turn profitable within months of his acquisition — it has done neither.
Nolan, for his part, dismissed the pre-release controversy as “irrelevant,” saying “These conversations that happen before people see the film — they’re always irrelevant, because no one having them knows what the film actually is yet.”
With The Odyssey on its way to becoming the most successful movie that the Academy Award-winning director has ever made, it looks like he was right.