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The Odyssey made Spider-Man’s MCU return a better movie, says Tom Holland
When Tom Holland asked Sony to delay production on Spider-Man: Brand New Day so he could be in The Odyssey, he inadvertently helped make Spider-Man 4 even better.
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Tom Holland is about to have a very big summer with both The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brand New Day coming out in July. Though production of the latest Spider-Man film got delayed so Holland could be in Christopher Nolan’s Greek epic, he says that it allowed Marvel Studios to get director Destin Daniel Cretton and gave them six extra months to make Spider-Man the best film it could be.
In a long-ranging interview, Tom Holland talked about how he asked Sony to delay work on Spider-Man: Brand New Day so he could appear in The Odyssey. Considering the third MCU Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, made almost $2 billion at the box office, that couldn’t have been an easy decision for Sony. However, Holland says that the delay gave them time to get the right director for his fourth Spider-Man movie, which ultimately made the movie better.
“The Odyssey almost saved Spider-Man because we wouldn’t have had Destin [Daniel Cretton, director of Brand New Day],” Tom Holland explained. “He wouldn’t have been ready to make the movie when we were ready to go. We wouldn’t have had the six-month period to develop the script with Destin to get it to a place where it is now. And I truly believe that we’ve made the best version of any Spider-Man movie going. So while it was a tough pill to swallow for Sony, I think in hindsight, they’re very grateful it happened.”
The much-improved Spider-Man: Brand New Day is out on July 31, 2026, just a few weeks after Tom Holland is in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey on July 17, 2026.
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