Elon Musk, whose promises traditionally arrive years late or not at all, says Grok Imagine will make a full-length, “historically accurate” adaptation of The Odyssey before Christmas 2026. At last, a meticulously researched Scylla and Charybdis.
Musk announced the project after complaining that Nolan had “desecrated Homer” with his casting choices. His objection appears less concerned with ancient Greek literature than with the presence of Black people, a subject on which the billionaire has somehow found even more time to post.
The post came hours after Musk responded to another user who suggested he stump up $100 million for Mel Gibson “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.”
Musk replied: “I’m down.”
He previously amplified the post of an X user who suggested that Nolan was a “coward” for casting Black actress Lupita Nyong’o’ as Helen of Troy for fear of being called a racist. Musk commented “true” and has since repeatedly expressed this view. Replying to someone else’s post on the issue of casting, he wrote in May: “Chris Nolan is an anti-White racist.”
Historians eagerly await Grok’s definitive account of the part that never happened.
>His objection appears less concerned with ancient Greek literature than with the presence of Black people
should be mentioned that the ancient Greeks were really quite taken with 'Black people' [1] including the historian Herodotus famously declaring that the Ethiopians to be "the most beautiful and the statuesque of all people"
[1] https://www.scribd.com/document/857595017/60-compliments-made-by-ancient-Greeks-about-Afro-Indigenous
it must hurt lil' elno's brain knowing the black and trans people existed way back in cyclops-times