Not really a “strange gaffe” if you realize that Elon Musk is actually just a fucking idiot.
I really love how the timing on the release of that movie really was spectacular. It came out just in time for Elno to have had a couple months to very publicly expose himself to be a complete moron (and a malevolent one at that), giving the movie a relevancy it hadn’t counted on. The movie may not have been about Elno when it was made, but it certainly is about him now.