{"id":36409,"date":"2026-02-01T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/?p=36409"},"modified":"2026-02-01T10:40:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T15:40:50","slug":"nolan-announces-sequel-odyssey-2-electric-boogaloo-starring-megan-thee-stallion-as-twerking-achilles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/nolan-announces-sequel-odyssey-2-electric-boogaloo-starring-megan-thee-stallion-as-twerking-achilles\/","title":{"rendered":"Nolan Announces Sequel &#8216;Odyssey 2: Electric Boogaloo&#8217; Starring Megan Thee Stallion As Twerking Achilles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD \u2014\u00a0Director Christopher Nolan has officially greenlit <em>Odyssey 2: Electric Boogaloo<\/em>, the sequel to his already infamous 2026 adaptation of Homer\u2019s <em>The Odyssey<\/em>. The director, still basking in the pre-release backlash over casting black actress Lupita Nyong&#8217;o as the white-armed Helen of Troy, has decided the only logical next step is to double down even harder on the woke casting.<\/p>\n<p>The upcoming sequel will star Megan Thee Stallion as Twerking Achilles, a character described as &#8220;a black, disabled, non-binary warrior who uses their twerking to defeat the Trojans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sources close to production say her signature twerking choreography will be the centerpiece of the film\u2019s climactic battle sequence, set to a rap remix of the Iliad\u2019s opening lines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Achilles was always meant for a black woman,&#8221; said Christopher Nolan during an interview, defending the casting choice as though it were a great idea. &#8220;The original Achilles was a boring white guy. Megan brings the fire, diversity, and big booty shaking ass we need for an ancient Greek epic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other famous black celebrities set to star in the upcoming movie include Oprah Winfrey as Patroclus, Jay-Z as Odysseus, Lizzo as Circe, Rupaul as Zeus, and Michelle Obama as the Cyclops.<\/p>\n<p>At press time, the studio has already announced a third installment, <em>Odyssey 3: Wakanda Forever<\/em>, in which the entire surviving cast time-travels to Wakanda to teach the Dora Milaje how to fight colonialism with choreography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD \u2014\u00a0Director Christopher Nolan has officially greenlit Odyssey 2: Electric Boogaloo, the sequel to his already infamous 2026 adaptation of Homer\u2019s The Odyssey. The director, still basking in the pre-release backlash over casting black actress Lupita Nyong&#8217;o as the white-armed Helen of Troy, has decided the only logical next step is to double down even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[80,1114],"class_list":["post-36409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-rated-pg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysoak.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}