Tom Holland Calls Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey His Most Impressive Work Yet
Christopher Nolan is gearing up for The Odyssey, and it already has some major star power hyping it up.
Tom Holland is already hyped on Christopher Nolan's next epic. He says Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is the best script he has ever read. And no, he is not talking about Spider-Man this time. Holland plays Telemachus, Odysseus's son, and he sounds genuinely fired up about it.
"The script is the best script I've ever read."
He dropped that to Agence France-Presse (via France 24). The 29-year-old said it about a month after production wrapped on the film. In the meantime, he is back in the suit: 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' has started filming.
Holland also called Nolan "a real collaborator." He says Nolan knows exactly what he wants, but it is not a closed set — actors can pitch ideas and build their characters. For a director famous for precision, that is a nice little inside-baseball detail.
For context, Holland has read a lot of scripts people care about. He joined the MCU as Peter Parker in 'Captain America: Civil War,' showed up in 'Avengers: Infinity War' and 'Avengers: Endgame,' and led three solo 'Spider-Man' movies. So when he says this one tops the pile, it is not nothing.
What Nolan is adapting
'The Odyssey' tackles Homer’s classic: Odysseus tries to make it home to Ithaca after the Trojan War and keeps running into mythic disasters — the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens, the witch-goddess Circe — while his son Telemachus (that is Holland) and wife Penelope deal with the fallout back home.
The cast
- Matt Damon as Odysseus
- Charlize Theron as Circe
- Tom Holland as Telemachus
- Anne Hathaway
- Zendaya
- Lupita Nyong'o
- Robert Pattinson
Timing, formats, the whole Nolan of it all
Universal announced in December that Nolan’s post-'Oppenheimer' (the multi-Oscar-winning 2023 juggernaut) would be 'The Odyssey.' Cameras started rolling in February 2025, and the movie is dated for July 17, 2026 in U.S. theaters. It is set for IMAX, IMAX 70mm film, and the usual formats — so expect the big, loud, meticulously engineered Nolan experience again.