Christopher Nolan won the weekend. Elon Musk spent Tuesday morning announcing two rival Odysseys.
In the span of about an hour, the X owner replied “I’m down” to a viral pitch asking him to hand Mel Gibson $100 million for a historically accurate adaptation in Homeric Greek.
Then he pinned a post vowing that his own AI video generator will produce a feature-length version of Homer’s epic before the year is out.
“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,” Musk wrote.
The Pinned Pledge: A Grok-Made Odyssey By December
The Grok post is the concrete one. Musk was quote-tweeting the verified account Heavy Pulp, which had posted a Grok Imagine-generated dialogue scene from the Odyssey.
The clip shows an AI Odysseus in gold armor standing on a beach with a fleet of ancient ships anchored behind him, and the account included a thread on how it was built.
Musk’s response upgraded a fan experiment into a product roadmap: a full-length movie, “historically accurate and true to the art of Homer,” delivered before 2026 ends.
He then pinned it to the top of his profile, where it pulled 10,000 likes inside its first hour.
And He’s ‘Down’ For The Mel Gibson Version Too
The other post came from a verified account called John Carter, which laid out its own pitch: Musk gives Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with “painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting.”
The pitch also calls for every line of dialogue to come straight from the poem, delivered in Homeric Greek.
Musk’s answer, two words: “I’m down.”
The original pitch pulled 20,000 likes in eight hours. Musk’s reply grabbed 6,000 in its first hour and climbing.
From ‘What A Worm’ To Building His Own
The timing is the story.
Musk spent half a year hammering Nolan’s version, going from “Chris Nolan has lost his integrity” in January to “pissing on Homer’s grave” in May to calling the director “a worm” the night before the London premiere.
All while the countdown trailer blew past 700,000 dislikes.
Nolan’s film opened huge.
The Odyssey posted a $124.5 million domestic opening and $264 million globally, the biggest worldwide debut of Nolan’s career, with an ‘A’ CinemaScore, a 98% score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 96% audience score that tops The Dark Knight.
None of that settles the argument that has been raging since January.
A record opening proves people showed up for Nolan’s take. It says nothing about whether anyone will ever make the version fans have been asking for.
Tuesday’s posts are Musk’s answer: he will.
Why Gibson Is The Name In The Pitch
The Gibson half of the pitch isn’t fantasy casting out of a hat. He is the only director alive who has already made this exact movie and printed money doing it.
Every studio passed on The Passion of the Christ, so Gibson spent roughly $30 million of his own money on a film with all dialogue in Aramaic and Latin, subtitled, no stars. It grossed over $600 million worldwide.
Then he shot Apocalypto entirely in Yucatec Maya.
He’s also one of the three Hollywood ambassadors Trump named alongside Jon Voight and Sylvester Stallone.
And he’s currently deep in the two-part The Resurrection of the Christ at Lionsgate, arriving in 2027. The exact skill set the pitch calls for is in active use right now.
Universal Can’t DMCA This One
Homer’s poem is public domain, so none of this needs anyone’s permission.
That detail matters, because Universal spent release week firing DMCA takedowns at Odyssey memes on X.
This site knows exactly how those land. Musk’s own platform handed us two strikes over Warner Bros. Discovery takedowns on our Lanterns coverage, so the free speech platform processes Hollywood’s paperwork just fine.
Now the owner of that platform is pledging a full-length rival Odyssey built on his own AI, and there isn’t a takedown notice on Earth that can touch it.
Nolan answered the box office question on Friday.
The question of what the audience that put 700,000 dislikes on a trailer actually wanted is still open, and as of Tuesday morning, the world’s richest man has promised to answer it twice.
For everything confirmed and still rumored about the film, see our full guide to Nolan’s The Odyssey.
