Tom Holland Accused of Spoiling Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Ending

Few things in modern movie culture are as reliable as a Tom Holland press run yielding at least one detail his studio might wish he’d kept to himself. The actor who once announced “I’m alive” to a theater of people who hadn’t yet watched Avengers: Infinity War has spent the better part of a decade as Hollywood’s least dependable secret-keeper, and this week the internet decided he’d done it again — this time on a film guarded more fervently than almost anything in the business.

The accusation spread through a viral post on X, where a fan account claimed Holland had given away a roughly nine-minute sequence from the end of his new movie, and that the clip catching him in the act had already been yanked offline (the full GQ interview that the clip was taken from is still very much available to watch). The film is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and the irony wasn’t lost on anyone: Holland stands accused of spoiling a story that has been in print for close to 3,000 years.

The Odyssey opens in IMAX on Jul. 17, the first narrative feature shot entirely on the format, with a reported budget of around $250 million and a 172-minute runtime. Matt Damon leads as Odysseus, with Holland as his son Telemachus, alongside Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Robert Pattinson as the villainous suitor Antinous, and a deep bench running through Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, Jon Bernthal, and Elliot Page.

Nolan’s secrecy is the stuff of industry legend. He’s known for having actors read scripts in supervised rooms rather than letting pages leave the building. Universal has kept The Odyssey‘s plot specifics sealed even as the marketing leans hard on its mythological set pieces, including the Trojan horse, the Cyclops, and the whirlpool of Charybdis. Against that backdrop, the thought of a lead casually narrating the climax was always going to travel fast, especially for a shoot this technically locked down.

Tom Holland as Telemachus in The Odyssey

Holland’s track record speaks for itself. During his Marvel years, he revealed an Avengers: Infinity War ‘death’ to a live audience, talked through Spider-Man: Far From Home plot mechanics at a press event in Bali, and let slip the existence of sequels before they were announced. It got to the point that Marvel was rumored to have handed him fake or redacted pages and parked Benedict Cumberbatch beside him in interviews to cut him off. The jump from the MCU to a Nolan production was always going to test whether those old habits had stuck.

Recently, Holland has spent the past few months calling The Odyssey “the job of a lifetime” and Nolan’s script the best he’s ever read. When it comes to possibly spoiling its plot, the small problem is that Homer got there first; anyone anxious about how Odysseus gets home can just read the poem. What the trailers have hinted at, though — Penelope’s mournful “that world is gone,” the sense that the homecoming doesn’t go to plan — points to an ending fans would much rather keep for themselves until July.