Universal Responds After All 3 Hours of The Odyssey Leak on Social Media

Universal has stepped successful aft a high-quality upload of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey leaked connected X/Twitter.

While viewers headed to theaters to drawback the Greek epic connected its 2nd play astatine the container office, immoderate stayed location to ticker it instead. All 2 hours and 53 minutes of the blockbuster movie managed to leak onto societal media implicit the weekend, giving thousands entree to an astonishingly high-quality (but inactive inferior) mentation of the movie to ticker from the comfortableness of their homes or, deity forbid, their phones.

Most, if not all, uploads crossed X person seemingly been removed successful 1 mode oregon another, with the astir fashionable station taken down entirely. The responses to The Odyssey leak, however, remain, revealing a premix of reactions from users who were amazed to spot the movie posted successful its entirety with small fanfare. Others person taken the accidental to person a spot much fun.

"Watching The Odyssey for the archetypal clip via a Twitter leak connected my iPhone successful a tiny subscreen up apical portion scrolling my timeline, conscionable arsenic Nolan intended," 1 idiosyncratic joked.

"Gets taken down the 2nd I commencement watching it," different said with a "loudly crying" emoji.

As reported by Variety, The Odyssey leak had garnered much than 2.1 cardinal views by the clip Universal was yet capable to person it taken down. Although it swiftly stepped in, it seems the posts were unrecorded agelong capable for radical to ticker immense chunks of the film.

"We became alert of the unauthorized posting of the movie and instantly initiated takedown protocols," Universal told the tract successful a statement. "We instrumentality copyright infringement earnestly and volition prosecute each due remedies to support our contented and intelligence spot rights."

Despite the X assemblage getting their hands connected an aboriginal upload, The Odyssey leak astir apt won't bash overmuch to dilatory its occurrence successful theaters. Its opening play saw Nolan bring location his champion planetary debut ever with a worldwide full of 264.1 million, with its 2nd play already piling connected adjacent much awesome stats. Meanwhile, X overseer Elon Musk said his AI instrumentality Grok would beryllium capable to marque its ain mentation of The Odyssey earlier the extremity of 2026. He said this AI-generated mentation of the communicative volition beryllium "historically close and existent to the creation of Homer."

Nolan famously went to large lengths to guarantee his The Odyssey would beryllium changeable wholly utilizing Imax cameras, making this weekend's leak adjacent much disappointing to see. Although fans person flocked from astir the state to drawback it successful their preferred format, Imax CEO Richard Gelfond has said gathering much 70mm Imax projectors is "not practical."

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