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Inside Tom Holland’s Gamble to Delay Spider-Man: Brand New Day and Join Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey
Holland recently revealed how the superhero film's producers agreed after he had an uncomfortable conversation.
Tom Holland moved mountains to work on ace filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s upcoming epic The Odyssey. The actor revealed that he had an “uncomfortable conversation” with Sony Pictures boss Tom Rothman about delaying the production of Spider-Man: Brand New Day so that he could film Christopher Nolan‘s epic instead. When Nolan first offered him the role of Odysseus’ son Telemachus, both movies had identical production start dates.
How Holland Convinced Sony Pictures to Delay Spider-Man: Brand New Day
Tom Holland told GQ magazine, “So I said to Chris like, ‘Look, I want to do this movie, but if I’m going to do it, I’m going to have to call Sony and have a very uncomfortable conversation”. Sony agreed to push Spider-Man movie out of respect for him and Nolan. “I think one of the reasons why Sony were happy to move is because Chris has that reputation of, ‘This movie isn’t going to go five months over, and we aren’t actually going to lose Tom for two years”, he said.
The studio's gamble paid off due to Nolan's strict efficiency. He shared that The Odyssey started on schedule and finished nine days early. He went on, “Any other director, it might have been a slightly different conversation”. Ultimately, the actor said that it was even beneficial for The Odyssey to delay Spider-Man: Brand New Day as it opened the door for the Marvel movie to hire ‘Shang-Chi’ helmer Destin Daniel Cretton as director, giving the creative team time to develop the script.
“The Odyssey almost saved Spider-Man because we wouldn’t have had Destin. He wouldn’t have been ready to make the movie when we were ready to go. We wouldn’t have had the six months 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 that it happened”, Holland concluded.
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