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“The Odyssey” leaks have begun, as a high-quality bootleg of the film reached millions of people on X thanks to a viral tweet on July 25.
At 2:25 p.m. PT, a post on X reading “Someone uploaded ‘The Odyssey’ full movie
on X. Can you believe it?” amplified a message from a now-suspended account. The message included a high-quality version of the film, as confirmed by Variety, and climbed to over 2.1 million views within two and a half hours. By that time, the streaming film was replaced by a takedown notice, and then the account was suspended.
It certainly doesn’t seem to have hurt the film’s still-surging box office in its second weekend, during which it earned another $87 million, or lessen demand for the coveted Imax 70 mm tickets.
As of July 26, a few clones of the bootlegged film are available on X, but they’ve been mostly flooded away by mislabeled files promising “The Odyssey” but actually showing a Rickroll, the longtime internet prank of tricking people into watching the music video for Rick Astley’s 1987 song “Never Gonna Give You Up.”
Beyond piracy, X owner Elon Musk has been vocal with his opinions on the Christopher Nolan movie, insulting casting choices in particular, writing, “Who specifically is the asshole who added DEI lies to Academy Awards eligibility instead of it just being about making the best movie?” Musk then said his AI tool Grok Imagine would make a “historically accurate” version of the film to release this year.
