With audiences and critics swept up in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” it seems Elon Musk is eager to join the voyage.

Just days into Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s epic dominating the box office, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO boasted that his artificial intelligence video and image generator, Grok Imagine, can create a similar film adaptation by the end of the year.

“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 on X, the social media platform he also owns. 

The post was accompanied by a three-minute clip showing an AI-generated video depicting a scene from the ancient Greek tale, which follows the eponymous hero Odysseus during his journey back to Ithaca after the Trojan War.  

Musk publicly criticized Nolan’s film in January, long before its official theatrical release Friday, July 17, claiming the Oscar-winning director “lost his integrity” by casting Lupita Nyong’o, a Mexico-born Kenyan, as Helen of Troy. 

Musk also responded to rumors of Elliot Page being cast as Achilles, calling it “one of the dumbest and most twisted things I’ve ever heard.” Page, a transgender man, plays the Greek warrior Sinon in the movie, which does not feature Achilles.

At the time, Nolan told the Telegraph that the online discourse was “irrelevant.” 

Musk isn’t the first to consider giving the classic poem a technological twist in the wake of Nolan’s success. Fountain O, an AI startup with ties to Menlo Park, said it has already created an AI-generated adaptation that will stream on the company’s website later this summer.  

Titled “Odysseus: The Fall,” Fountain O’s take on Homer’s tale runs 135 minutes and reportedly cost five figures, a fraction of the $250 million price tag of Nolan’s blockbuster, according to the company. 

In June, the AI audio company ElevenLabs released an audiobook adaptation of the story narrated by an AI-generated replica of actor Michael Caine’s voice. 

Even as AI companies attempt to chart their own course through the ancient tale of Odysseus, Nolan’s movie — the first shot entirely on IMAX 70 mm film —  has weathered the cultural storm to become one of the summer’s biggest releases. It notched the best domestic opening of the year for a live-action feature with $124.5 million in ticket sales, marking the director’s best debut since “The Dark Knight Rises” (2012).  

Much of the demand comes from fans flocking to see the film in IMAX theaters as Nolan intended. Only 25 theaters nationwide are screening the rare format, including San Francisco’s AMC Metreon 16 and Dublin’s Regal Hacienda Crossings.

Nolan, for his part, has made no secret of his skepticism about AI. He likened it to the “Trojan Horse” during an interview on the YouTube channel HugoDécrypte on July 13.  

“It’s a transparent horse,” he said. “It’s made of glass. Everybody can see what’s going on inside of there.”