Trillionaire Elon Musk has continued his attack on Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster The Odyssey, claiming his own AI tool Grok Imagine will make a “historically accurate” full-length version of Homer’s epic poem.

The tech mogul’s comments come after he earlier led a right-wing backlash against the new blockbuster film, calling its director a “worm” who had “desecrated Homer just to meet the woke rules required to win an Oscar”.

In his latest social media post about The Odyssey, Musk shared a three-minute dialogue scene created using Grok Imagine.

“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,” he wrote in the post on X.

Homer’s The Odyssey follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, on his long and perilous journey home after the Trojan War.

The AI-generated clip depicts an Odysseus speaking to the nymph Calypso, who has trapped him on her island, as the hero pleads to return home.

While some some fans of Musk – has repeatedly argued AI will transform entertainment as well as technology ­– applauded the Space X founder’s response to it, others pointed out the obvious:

“Historically accurate? You’re aware it’s a mythological poem, right?,” wrote one X user.

“…a ‘historically accurate’ version of the Odyssey is not possible because the Odyssey does not take place in a historical setting – it takes place in a fantastical pastiche of four centuries, mixed in with gods and monsters,” pointed out another.

A historically accurate film of The Odyssey would be so horrifying no one would want to watch it. What he means is a sandals and British accent affair with aesthetics stolen from Gladiator. https://t.co/JH0RPuNwhO

— Yuan Yi Zhu (@yuanyi_z) July 22, 2026

Such facts have not previously deterred Musk and others for attacking Nolan’s casting of Black actor Lupita Nyong’o (Helen of Troy) and trans actor Elliot Page (Sinon) in the film, which stars Matt Damon as Odysseus.

Nolan, whose previous films include Batman and The Dark Knight, has previously called the backlash over historical accuracy – including the use of modern dialogue ­– “irrelevant”.

It certainly doesn’t seem to have hurt his film, which is becoming one of the year’s biggest box-office hits, bringing in $A378.6 million  globally on its opening weekend.

Matt Damon says filming The Odyssey took a toll on every middle-aged cast member.

‘What we got was back pain’

While the idea of an AI-generated take on The Odyssey grabbed headlines on Thursday, the real-life “middle-aged” cast promoting  Nolan’s film have spoken of the physical toll of filming the action-packed blockbuster.

Speaking on Radio Andy with host Andy Cohen, 55-year-old Matt Damon told how the cast were also left with cuts on their feet due to the sandals they wore for the ancient setting.

He said: “A lot of us are middle-aged people and what we got was back pain.

“Oh my God, running through Troy, like, you know, it’s all stone.

“You’re in these sandals and they’re very real. Our feet were all scuffed up.

“But more than the scratches and cuts on your feet, it was the back pain for us.

“It was a heavy Advil movie in those weeks when we were doing all that action stuff.”

Damon underwent a physical transformation for the film, dropping his weight to 76 kilograms and growing a beard for a year before production.

He told People magazine: “It was more about just getting really, really physically fit.

“Which just really involves changing your diet. I stopped eating gluten, among other things.

“You have to just be very, very intentional about everything you put in your body.”

The cast also includes John Leguizamo, 66; Jon Bernthal, 49; Samantha Morton, 49, and Anne Hathaway, 43.

Younger co-star Tom Holland said he felt “intimidated” when he met the acclaimed director for the first time.

The 30-year-old, who will also return to the role of Spider-Man in Brand New Day later this month, said he was “pinching himself” when he was asked to play Telemachus.

“I mean, obviously the first word out of your mouth is ‘yes’,” Holland said.

“I was really intimidated to meet him, but he’s a very disarming person, he’s really kind, he’s really personable, and he was really open about the ambition of what he wanted to try and do.

“And I love film, I love making movies, I love watching movies, and I was just excited as a fan of cinema to hear what he was planning on doing, and then to get the chance to be in it was just… I’m still to this day kind of pinching myself.”

—with AAP