Tom Holland Launches Letterboxd’s The Odyssey Challenge Every Christopher Nolan Fan Will Want to Tackle

Christopher Nolan went full Homer, and now the pre-release hype for The Odyssey is getting weirdly interactive. Tom Holland just turned seeing the movie into a game on Letterboxd, tickets already melted theater sites, and Nolan shot the whole thing on IMAX. So yeah, strap in.

The Letterboxd twist: watch it once, brag forever

Holland popped up in a promo on June 8 to unveil a new Letterboxd thing: a digital punch card that lets you log exactly how you saw The Odyssey each time you see it. IMAX, film, Dolby Cinema, whatever — the card tracks formats and rewatches so you can show off your path through the format maze. Letterboxd says it is a first for the platform, and it is very much designed for bragging rights.

"For the first time ever on Letterboxd, you’ll be able to track and share the way you experience the film with a brand new digital punch card."

Tickets, formats, and the rollout that broke the internet (again)

That punch card lands on top of a ticket frenzy that already slammed AMC and Fandango last week. The movie’s rollout looks massive — and unusually format-happy — even by Nolan standards. The Odyssey is the first feature shot entirely on IMAX cameras, and theaters are lining up every premium option under the sun.

• Opens worldwide July 17, 2026
• Shot 100% on IMAX cameras
• Plays in 70mm IMAX, standard film screenings, Dolby Cinema with Dolby Vision, and other premium large-format auditoriums
• The official site even previews how scenes frame up in different aspect ratios, because of course it does

What Nolan is actually adapting here

This is Homer’s Odyssey: Odysseus, King of Ithaca, spends a decade trying to get home after the Trojan War while ticking off gods, dodging monsters, and surviving shipwrecks. It has been one of the core adventure blueprints for something like 3,000 years, and now it is getting the full Nolan treatment.

The cast is stacked. Matt Damon leads as Odysseus, with Tom Holland, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong'o, Charlize Theron, Mia Goth, and Benny Safdie backing him up. If you are sensing a 'biggest-movie-of-the-year' vibe, you are not wrong.

The scale (and the price tag) are huge

This is Nolan’s first film since the Oscar- hauling Oppenheimer and, per reports, the most expensive project of his career at around $250 million — which also puts it in contention for the priciest R-rated movie ever made. It continues his oddly consistent three-year rhythm: Dunkirk (2017), Tenet (2020), Oppenheimer (2023), and now The Odyssey in 2026. If he keeps that pace, pencil in summer 2029 for whatever obsession comes next.

Bottom line

Between the all-IMAX shoot, the format buffet, the ticket rush that rattled theater sites, and a Letterboxd challenge built for repeat viewings, The Odyssey is shaping up as more than just another blockbuster — it is an event with homework.

How are you planning to see it first — 70mm IMAX, Dolby Cinema, or whatever seat you can actually get? And are you jumping on the Letterboxd punch card?