Tesla tycoon launched Grok project after criticising Christoper Nolan’s diverse casting for his Homeric blockbuster
Elon Musk has released an AI-generated rival to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey after pledging to make a version “true to the art of Homer”.
Having criticised the hit movie in the summer, the tycoon said he would use Grok Imagine to make a “historically accurate” adaptation.
The initial results have been released on X in the form of a seven-minute episode made in conjunction with Wonder Studios, a London-based startup.
Musk had objected to Nolan’s casting choices – such as black actor Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy – and used the blockbuster as a vehicle for reciting his views on diversity, equity and inclusion.
The Tesla tycoon had promised to make a “full-length movie” version of Homer’s poem before the year ends but is sticking to a film released in episodes.
The first episode starts with Odysseus agonising over whether to join the Greek forces in their attempt to sack Troy. He then sails from Ithaca, his home island, with his men crying out for “vengeance” before they make land and start fighting.
The episode ends after 10 years of conflict, with Odysseus holding, ominously, a wooden figurine of a horse.
Xavier Collins, the co-founder of Wonder Studios, said the first episode was made in less than two weeks with a creative team of three, including the US-based director Dev Walker. It is understood to have cost tens of thousands of dollars.
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