Christopher Nolan's film adaptation of *The Odyssey* has become a box office hit, undercutting months of online backlash led by Elon Musk and right-wing commentators who accused the film of "historical inaccuracy" for casting Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy and Elliot Page as Sinon. Rather than accepting the film's success, many of its critics have shifted to conspiracy theories claiming the box office figures are fraudulent, illustrating a broader disconnect between this online faction and mainstream audience reception.

The film opened to $264 million despite calls for a boycott, and even some conservative commentators such as Ben Shapiro have praised it as a landmark achievement. Unverified social media posts have since claimed, without evidence, that Universal Pictures inflated ticket sales despite a $250 million production budget and $125 million marketing spend. Separately, Musk has pledged that his AI venture xAI will produce a "historically accurate" Grok-generated version of *The Odyssey* by the end of the year, a claim treated sceptically given his track record on deadlines and echoed by a similar AI-made project, *Odyssey: The Fall*, already planned by studio Fountain 0.