Tom Holland is promoting “The Odyssey” with a behind-the-scenes tease on Instagram, and the response has been immediate. His caption: “From rehearsing by the pool to fighting on the edge of a cliff. Experience The Odyssey in all its glory in IMAX on July 17th.”
Pool rehearsals. Cliff fights. IMAX. If your Spidey senses aren’t tingling right now, check your pulse.
The post drew 1.47 million likes. For a single promotional caption with no video and no trailer link, that’s a number with real weight behind it. Pre-release heat at this level, this early, gets noticed.
“The Odyssey” hits IMAX screens on July 17, 2026. Eleven days from now. Holland isn’t just telling you the film is coming. He’s telling you it’s been a physical journey to get here. He wants you to see the result on the biggest screen possible.
The contrast in that caption is doing a lot of work. Action sequences get built from scratch in pool rehearsals. Stunt coordinators are there. Choreographers are there. Holland is in the water, learning the mechanics of every beat. The details get locked down. Then the cameras go on location. For “The Odyssey,” that means cliff edges. Holland is describing actual cliff-edge combat sequences, captured for IMAX. That’s not post-credits energy. That’s the whole movie.
That kind of production commitment takes months. The final product isn’t a soundstage approximation. It’s the real location and the real altitude. IMAX cameras pick up every detail.
Holland started doing his own stunt work in his early MCU days. He’s always been vocal about how much the physical preparation matters to him. The Spider-Man films pushed him hard. “The Odyssey” sounds like a different category of demanding altogether. Cliff-edge fight sequences don’t get improvised. They get built in controlled environments first. Then they move to the real location.
IMAX exclusivity on opening day is a deliberate statement. It signals confidence in the visual scale of the film. Studios and directors don’t commit to IMAX on day one without believing the footage justifies it. The scope Holland is describing – wide-open cliff locations, large-scale action – is exactly the kind of material IMAX was built for.
Holland wrapped his run as Peter Parker with “Spider-Man: No Way Home” in 2021. He’s moved deliberately since then. “Cherry” showed he could handle a gritty dramatic lead. “The Devil All the Time” added more weight. Both were serious departures from the MCU. “The Odyssey” looks like the action version of that evolution. Real-location, IMAX-first. That’s a long way from swinging between Manhattan skyscrapers.
Full cast details and story specifics for “The Odyssey” haven’t been confirmed in official announcements yet. But the clock is ticking. July 17 is eleven days out. And Holland’s caption has already done its job.
One line. 1.47 million likes. A cliff. Consider this your call to assemble.
