2.1 Million People View Leaked 'Odyssey' Bootleg on X (variety.com)
- Reference: 0184712004
- News link: https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/07/27/0124231/21-million-people-view-leaked-odyssey-bootleg-on-x
- Source link: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/the-odyssey-leaked-high-quality-bootleg-x-1236821418/
> "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...
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> 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."
The article notes the leak "certainly doesn't seem to have hurt the film's [2]still-surging box office in its second weekend, during which it earned another $87 million," or lessened demand for [3]Imax 70 mm tickets .
[1] https://variety.com/2026/film/news/the-odyssey-leaked-high-quality-bootleg-x-1236821418/
[2] https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/the-odyssey-box-office-massive-second-weekend-1236821417/
[3] https://variety.com/2026/film/news/the-odyssey-imax-70mm-showtimes-will-there-be-more-tickets-1236816709/
If you think a Rickroll is cruel... (Score:3)
Just wait until you try to download the bootleg video and end up with a copy of Musk's AI-generated "historically accurate" version instead. D'oh! :)
A "historically accurate" version. (Score:2)
> Just wait until you try to download the bootleg video and end up with a copy of Musk's AI-generated "historically accurate" version instead. D'oh! :)
So, it's going to include all the Greek gods, Scylla and Charybdis, the Cyclops, Circe, Calypso, Sirens, man-eating giants etc. This should ensure it is "historically accurate". Oh, and all the actors will of course be white, not olive skinned.
Who cares? (Score:3, Informative)
Every movie that comes out has multiple torrents and various other sites you can download it from. This has been going on since the 90s since CeNTRoPY used to hookup the telesync SVCDs sometimes before the movie was released. One could download it from XDCC bots on IRC or if you were connected on a topsite or relay site some courier used FXP to directly transfer it to from another FTP site. Not much has changed except it's on torrents, darkweb, or other bootleg sites. Is the point it was posted on X?
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From TFS it appears that it was posted on X and was taken down only after someone in control there were done watching it.
I guess elona really wanted to see Helen Nolan.
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The article makes no mention of the source. But everything about this sounds like it's just the [1]CAM release from LuCY [predb.me]. Which has been available for around a week and a half now.
In which case, yeah, the only thing novel about it was that it was posted to a more publicly-visible website.
[1] https://predb.me/?post=12589714
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> Is the point it was posted on X?
Sort of: Nolan was upset X/Twitter's 280 character limit is not IMAX compliant.
"High quality" (Score:2)
The definition of quality is quite relative. For a film shot in IMAX format I don't think event the bluray release should be considered "high quality" much less a bootleg, regardless of how good that bootleg may be.
2 hours 53 minutes (Score:4, Interesting)
Completely insufferable to watch in a cinema, with no breaks and disruptive people.
3 hour movie (Score:2)
If it was taken down after 2.5 hours it means nobody saw the movie, just part of it.
Added to my time machine to-do list (Score:2)
Go back to when Homer wrote The Odyssey and convince him to release it under the GPL license.
Blokes twatting around with swords (Score:3)
"By 2.5 hours I had lost the will to live"
My girlfriends review.
I owe her 2 rom coms now. TBC if that's a fair trade.
I will watch it again, alone on a wet afternoon with some libations to Athena. I found [1]The Return [imdb.com] a better production in respect of performances and examination of Odysseus and his Queen. That was a footnote in the new movie, but some of the scenes were epic, the cyclops, the pig polymorph was very spooky.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19861162/
Torrent has been up for over a week (Score:2)
So again, NOT stuff that matters.
Saw it. Didnâ(TM)t think it was real (Score:1)
But I skipped ahead, jaw dropped, and downloaded it.
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I plan on seeing it in the theater tomorrow afternoon. Don't need a bootleg copy.
Re: Saw it. Didnâ(TM)t think it was real (Score:2)
Same, I don't think this hurts anyone's bottom line significantly. Either people can afford to see it in a theatre and they will, or they can't and this doesn't make a difference because they were never going to spend that money anyway, let them have the bootleg.
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Telesyncs were the polar opposite of the definition of "high quality".
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Much better than CAM usually, so works for the most impatient. Or so I hear.