{"id":2449,"date":"2026-07-08T23:08:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=2449"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:08:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:08:59","slug":"tom-holland-not-that-one-battles-with-elon-musk-over-odyssey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=2449","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland (not that one) battles with Elon Musk over \u2018Odyssey\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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His name is Tom Holland, and he has plenty of strong opinions about \u201cThe Odyssey.\u201d Just don\u2019t mistake him for one of the film\u2019s stars.<\/p>\n

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Holland, a U.K.-based historian, has built a following of more than 372,000 on X, where he shares insights on topics ranging from the Greco-Persian Wars to the height of the Roman Empire.<\/p>\n

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But this month, as Christopher Nolan\u2019s adaptation of Homer\u2019s epic \u201cThe Odyssey\u201d arrives in theaters, Holland has found himself stepping into a very different arena: the culture wars. <\/p>\n

The Greek epic, which follows Odysseus on his perilous 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the Trojan War, is a foundational work in Western literature. The tale has been continuously retold, translated and adapted into various formats over nearly three millennia.<\/p>\n

Hype around the movie, which co-starsthe actor Tom Holland as Odysseus\u2019 son Telemachus, has been building for more than a year, with tickets for early showings sold out. <\/p>\n

But in recent months, the movie has become the subject of an ongoing culture war clash over what some on the right see as historical inaccuracies and casting choices designed to appease the left.<\/p>\n

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Several have zeroed in on the casting of Lupita Nyong\u2019o as Helen of Troy, the mythic beauty whose face \u201claunched a thousand ships\u201d and ignited the Trojan War, and Elliot Page as Sinus, a warrior who fought alongside Odysseus during the Trojan War. <\/p>\n

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