The key facts

  • Grok released a seven-minute AI episode of The Odyssey, presented as a 'creative collaboration' with Wonder Studios and Dav Walker
  • The video was criticized for historical inaccuracies, despite Musk's promise of 'historical accuracy'
  • Nolan's film grossed nearly $1.8 billion and received mostly positive reviews

The promise has been partially fulfilled

This summer, Elon Musk stated that his tool Grok Imagine would create a feature-length film based on Homer's Odyssey by the end of the year — 'historically accurate and faithful to Homer's art.' The promise came after several months of his attacks on Christopher Nolan's film, accompanied, as Euronews put it, by racist and transphobic remarks and 'go woke, go broke' slogans. Now, on October 26, X has published a seven-minute AI episode of the planned series, presented as a 'creative collaboration' with Wonder Studios and director Dav Walker, who specialize in AI filmmaking. Thus, the promised feature-length film so far exists only as a short episode.

Criticism and failure to meet its own criteria

The online reaction was mostly negative: the video was called 'complete garbage' and 'a vivid example of how little AI understands about art and people.' Users pointed out strange character movements, jumpy storytelling, retouching, uniformly white faces, and weak dialogue. One commenter highlighted the contradiction: Musk criticized Nolan for historical inaccuracy, yet himself released a seven-minute video 'with dozens of historical inaccuracies.' Euronews also lists specific discrepancies with the claimed 'historical accuracy': the episode is not in Greek and depicts the Greeks landing at Troy — an event that takes place before the action of Homer's poem begins.

Against the backdrop of Nolan's film's success

The contrast with Nolan's film is striking: it was released worldwide on July 17, grossed nearly $1.8 billion, and received mostly rave reviews. At the same time, Euronews Culture, which included the film in its list of the best films of 2026, assessed it more reservedly: the outlet called The Odyssey the director's most ambitious project and a monumental technical achievement, but noted its unevenness, clumsy editing and pacing problems in the first half, as well as a lack of emotion in the final act.