ace‘Meaningless as a laptop screensaver’: reviewers slate Musk’s AI-made Odyssey film
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…
Reviewers judged the Grok Imagine episode poor, with one star from the Guardian and complaints of motiveless drama, sloppy visuals, and historically inaccurate boats and rapid pacing.
The article reports only early reviews of a single episode, and Wonder says it plans to improve later episodes, so the final quality of the series is unknown.
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- JournalismThe Guardian2026-10-27
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