Elon Musk suggested he was open to giving Mel Gibson $100 million to film a realistic adaptation of The Odyssey entirely in Homeric Greek.
The unusual proposal began coming together on Monday after a user on X wrote that he wanted Musk to give Gibson that nine-figure sum to ‘film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting.’
He insisted that all the dialogue had to be ‘taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek.’
About eight hours later, Musk replied with a simple message: ‘I’m down.’
Musk, who became the world’s first ever trillionaire last month,
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