As Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey continues to dominate the box office, Colman Domingo is the latest to revel in Elon Musk‘s sour grapes. While guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, the 2x Oscar nominee noted that Homer’s historical epic is“Totally made the f*ck up”as he roasted the first-ever trillionaire‘s announcement that his Grok Image tool will generate a“Historically accurate”adaptation by the end of the year. “Meanwhile, we could have yet another Odyssey movie on the way,”he stated in his opening monologue for Wednesday’s episode.
“Now, Elon Musk is planning to create what he calls a historically accurate version of The Odyssey using his Grok AI. And by historically accurate, he means whiter than Christmas at Cracker Barrel.” “Of course, this is all because Elon and his musketeers are upset over the diversity casting of The Odyssey.
And I don’t want to get technical here, but you can’t make a historically accurate version of something that is totally made the f*ck up.” Domingo continued,“I mean, The Odyssey is fiction, you know, like The Hunger Games or the president’s cognitive exams. I mean, come on.
Doesn’t Elon Musk have better things to do? Wasn’t this bitch supposed to be on Mars by now? But maybe we should show a little compassion for Elon.
This is a tough time for him. Helen of Troy is a beautiful Black woman. And this week, Jimmy Kimmel is a beautiful Black man.”
Despite the movie’s global $300M+ cume, Musk has continued his bitter crusade on Nolan’s summer blockbuster, declaring that X’s AI tool Grok Imagine“Will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer”by the end of the year. Musk and his ilk have recently made a stink about the ethnicity of some of the adaptation’s cast, which Nolan has also dismissed as“Irrelevant.” as soon as nolan stated he wasn’t going to use an orchestra because it“Wouldn’t be historically accurate”he painted a target on the film.