> Elon Musk Says He’d Give Mel Gibson $100 Million For An ‘Accurate’ Odyssey

The Odyssey is setting critical and box office records in various categories nearly every day, but there remains a loud subsection of social media users, mostly found on X, who remain dead-set against the film. One of those users is the site’s owner, Elon Musk, who has previously said that “Chris Nolan has lost his integrity” in response to comments about Nolan casting the actress, Lupita Nyong’o, who is Black, as Helen of Troy, among other sharp posts about the film.

Now, Musk is making new claims about the film, showing off a Grok-created Odyssey clip, and then saying, “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.” This has already been done with a different AI-created Odyssey film that has been getting a lot of (negative) attention.

Musk also seems open to the idea of giving money to a human director, responding to a post that says he wants Musk to give director Mel Gibson $100 million to make a “historically accurate” Odyssey. To which Musk answered, “I’m down.” Many users noted that Gibson is not exactly a beacon of historical accuracy with his films like Braveheart, Apocalypto, The Patriot, The Passion of the Christ and more.

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