Overview
- Tom Holland said he made a “very uncomfortable” call to Sony chief Tom Rothman to request a production delay for Spider-Man: Brand New Day so he could shoot Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, according to a GQ profile reported broadly on Tuesday.
- Sony agreed to push Spider-Man’s start so Holland could film Nolan’s project first, and Nolan’s shoot began on time and finished nine days early, leaving Holland a two-week gap between the two films.
- The schedule change cleared time for Destin Daniel Cretton to join Spider-Man and gave the team about six months to develop the script, which Holland credits with materially improving that film.
- Universal is marketing The Odyssey as an IMAX event, noting the production was shot on IMAX film cameras and releasing behind-the-scenes featurettes, and some analysts are projecting strong global grosses, including speculative $1 billion scenarios.
- The episode highlights how a director’s reputation and a star’s leverage can reshape studio calendars, influence creative decision-making on other tentpoles, and concentrate box-office competition with The Odyssey on July 17 and Spider-Man on July 31.