In recent months, Elon Musk has voiced his opposition to certain casting decisions made by Christopher Nolan on his latest blockbuster, The Odyssey. So he’s going to remake it.
Or rather, he’s going to get his AI tool, Grok, to remake it. By the end of the year. Why am I imagining a team of trained chimps bashing out prompts?
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
Musk’s post on X was accompanied by a three-minute proof-of-concept video. What a way to leverage the culture wars to advertise your AI model!
But when Elon Musk says he’s going to do something, he usually does it, like buy Twitter. Although he did once promise to buy Coca-Cola and put the cocaine back in, and that hasn’t happened yet.
Culture wars aside, the practical implications of this are huge if he can pull it off. But it wouldn’t be the first fully AI-generated movie.
Projects released this year include Dreams of Violets, which screened at the Tribeca film festival, horror movie Hell Grind, which screened at a Cannes side event, and the animated The Reunion Journey, a Chinese effort about Pandas.
If you look up these movies up IMDB, you will see some very low ratings. How much of that is down to the product and how much is a protest against the technology is up for debate. Probably a little of both.
So can Elon, Grok and a bunch of simian prompters pull it off? And if they do, is their version of The Odyssey destined to be ridiculed as AI slop, albeit with a hot Helen of Troy?
Either way, my takeaway from all this is that the technology is moving incredibly quickly. LMO may be making that giant spider movie featuring soapbox racing earlier than expected.
