Elon Musk promises you a historically accurate Cyclops

Nobody knows what an authentic Cyclops looked like, but Musk has strong opinions about its casting.

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.”

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Historians eagerly await Grok’s definitive account of the part that never happened.