{"id":599797,"date":"2026-07-23T05:24:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599797\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T05:24:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T05:24:22","slug":"doctor-strange-director-slams-elon-musk-over-ai-odyssey-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/599797\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Doctor Strange&#8217; Director Slams Elon Musk Over AI &#8216;Odyssey&#8217; Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s crusade against Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d has raised eyebrows in Hollywood after the newly minted trillionaire vowed that before the end of the year, his AI tool Grok \u201cwill make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.\u201d Musk also <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/global\/elon-musk-grok-ai-odyssey-film-historically-accurate-1236817856\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared a three-minute clip<\/a> of an AI-generated scene adapted from the poem, which was manufactured by a user on Grok.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOne figure from the film community, \u201cDoctor Strange\u201d and \u201cThe Black Phone\u201d director <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/scott-derrickson\/\" id=\"auto-tag_scott-derrickson\" data-tag=\"scott-derrickson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scott Derrickson<\/a>, pulled no punches when <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/scottderrickson\/status\/2079655020442911091?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">addressing Musk directly<\/a> on social media. \u201cClearly @elonmusk doesn\u2019t know shit about cinema &amp; he stopped reading in his 20s,\u201d Derrickson wrote on Musk\u2019s social media platform, X. \u201cHis opinions on art are worthless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Tesla mogul has railed against Nolan\u2019s \u201cOdyssey\u201d long before it was released due to his perception of certain \u201cwoke\u201d casting decisions. In March, Musk wrote that \u201cChris Nolan is an anti-White racist\u201d for casting Lupita Nyong\u2019o in the role of Helen of Troy, asserting that the director made the decision because \u201che wants the awards.\u201d Musk said \u201cChris Nolan has lost his integrity\u201d and called the casting an \u201cinsult\u201d to Homer.\u00a0Musk also took aim at Elliott Page, who plays Sinon in \u201cThe Odyssey,\u201d reposting comments that mocked the transgender actor\u2019s masculinity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThe Odyssey\u201d is not the first film Musk has criticized on X; he similarly mocked \u201cBarbie\u201d for its feminist themes and Disney\u2019s \u201cSnow White\u201d reboot led by Rachel Zegler. The anti-woke backlash to \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d didn\u2019t seem to matter. The Matt Damon-starring epic opened to $264 million worldwide and continues to sell out screenings months in advance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk\u2019s crusade against Christopher Nolan\u2019s \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d has raised eyebrows in Hollywood after the newly minted trillionaire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,1647,117,19,17,17276],"class_list":["post-599797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-eire","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-scott-derrickson"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116967628306144343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}