{"id":11462,"date":"2026-07-22T15:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/elon-musk-agrees-to-give-mel-gibson-100m-for-serious\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T12:30:32","slug":"elon-musk-agrees-to-give-mel-gibson-100m-for-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/elon-musk-agrees-to-give-mel-gibson-100m-for-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk agrees to give Mel Gibson $100M for serious Odyssey film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><strong>Elon Musk<\/strong> has thrown his support behind a new, ambitious live-action adaptation of Homer&#8217;s Odyssey. Responding to a popular post on X, Musk said <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m down&#8221;<\/em> to the proposal of giving $100 million to acclaimed director <strong>Mel Gibson<\/strong> to helm a meticulously researched Odyssey film based on the epic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The vision described by user @martianwyrdlord includes faithful ships, armor, and weapons from the Mycenaean era, a historically documented cast, dialogue taken directly from Homer&#8217;s original poem, and the entire film rendered in Homeric Greek.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I have nothing against AI generated feature length films, and in fact have been looking forward to this since the beginning of the year when the Amelia meme kicked off a wave of creative use of the medium, along with the incredible shorts made by <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MeinGottNiles?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MeinGottNiles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AlfredAlfer77?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AlfredAlfer77<\/a>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nbkjg01zc2\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nbkjg01zc2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rr1G0No7ss\">pic.twitter.com\/Rr1G0No7ss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Carter (@martianwyrdlord) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/martianwyrdlord\/status\/2079810386102985113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This move comes shortly after Musk announced that Grok Imagine \u2014 xAI&#8217;s powerful image and video generation tool \u2014 will independently create a full-length, historically accurate Odyssey film before the end of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Gibson, known for his uncompromising approach to historical storytelling in films like Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ, is considered an ideal choice for such an undertaking.<\/p>\n<p>His attention to linguistic and cultural detail could bring unprecedented authenticity to the ancient Greek world \u2014 something many in the Greek community have been demanding for years from modern adaptations.<\/p>\n<p>An Odyssey directed by Gibson could combine large-scale cinematic production with deep respect for the source material, potentially featuring reconstructed ancient Greek dialects and visuals based on archaeological findings.<\/p>\n<p>While discussions about Gibson&#8217;s potential project gain momentum, Musk&#8217;s artificial intelligence initiative proceeds in parallel.<\/p>\n<p>Grok Imagine aims to deliver a complete film faithful to Homer&#8217;s poetry and to the historical context of the Late Helladic period.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">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 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bVHzUmY9WN\">https:\/\/t.co\/bVHzUmY9WN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2079758604656316619?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>These developments are being closely watched by Greeks around the world. Whether through advanced artificial intelligence or through a traditional high-budget production helmed by a director like Mel Gibson, there is great anticipation that the Odyssey will finally receive the treatment it deserves, as reported by <em>Greekcitytimes<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"nfg-meta\" style=\"display:none;visibility:hidden;font-size:0;height:0;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">nfg-origin:gr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk endorsed funding Mel Gibson to direct a historically accurate Odyssey adaptation while his AI tool Grok Imagine works on creating its own version of the ancient Greek epic by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":11461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[775,9839,9840,9838,209,9101],"nfg_topic":[137],"class_list":["post-11462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-elon-musk","tag-homer-odyssey-film","tag-homeric-greek","tag-mel-gibson","tag-united-states","tag-xai","nfg_topic-culture-wars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11462"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=11462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}