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As Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey continues to predominate nan container office, Colman Domingo is nan latest to revel successful Elon Musk‘s sour grapes.
While guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, nan 2x Oscar nominee noted that Homer’s humanities epic is “totally made nan f*ck up” arsenic he roasted nan first-ever trillionaire‘s announcement that his Grok Image instrumentality will make a “historically accurate” adjustment by nan extremity of nan year.
“Meanwhile, we could person yet different Odyssey movie connected nan way,” he said successful his opening speech for Wednesday’s episode. “Now, Elon Musk is readying to create what he calls a historically meticulous type of The Odyssey utilizing his Grok AI. And by historically accurate, he intends whiter than Christmas astatine Cracker Barrel.”
“Of course, this is each because Elon and his musketeers are upset complete nan diverseness casting of The Odyssey. And I don’t want to get method here, but you can’t make a historically meticulous type of thing that is wholly made nan f*ck up.”
Domingo continued, “I mean, The Odyssey is fiction, you know, for illustration The Hunger Games aliases nan president’s cognitive exams. I mean, travel on. Doesn’t Elon Musk person amended things to do? Wasn’t this bitch expected to beryllium connected Mars by now? But possibly we should show a small compassion for Elon. This is simply a reliable clip for him. Helen of Troy is simply a beautiful Black woman. And this week, Jimmy Kimmel is simply a beautiful Black man.”
Despite nan movie surpassing $300M globally, Musk has continued his bitter crusade connected Nolan’s summertime blockbuster, declaring that X’s AI instrumentality Grok Imagine “will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically meticulous and existent to nan creation of Homer” by nan extremity of nan year.
Musk and his ilk person precocious made a stink astir nan ethnicity of immoderate of nan adaptation’s cast, which Nolan has besides dismissed arsenic “irrelevant.”
