Timothée Chalamet is already gearing up for his next project, which is slated to be an A24 film from Josh Safdie. Titled Marty Supreme, the fictional film is said to follow a professional ping pong player named Marty Reisman.
The film will be produced by Chalamet alongside Eli Bush and Anthony Katagas while Safdie and Ronald Bronstein are slated to pen the script. Marty Supreme brings Safdie and A24 together once again, both of which have worked together on two features, the popular Adam Sandler Uncut Gems and Good Time.. A24 took to X to reveal the upcoming film starring Chalamet, “Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon.”
While the film is fictional and loosely based on the real Marty Reisman’s life, it touches on his relationship with the sport. Reisman died in 2012 but was widely known as a table tennis champion who started his career in Manhattan when he used to play for bets and prize money. Between 1946 and 2022, he won 22 major ping pong titles and even won five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. Still competing at the age of 67, when he became the oldest player to win an open national competition in a racket sport at the United States National Hardbat Championship. Reisman was commonly known as the “wizard of table tennis.” Chalamet has long spoke of his admiration of the Safdie brothers. In a 2019 essay he penned for Variety, Chalamet said, “The pair have continuously put out contemporary, raw and untethered work over the last decade, each film building on the traits of the prior, but never once sacrificing their innate grittiness.”
At the time of writing, the official release date for Marty Supreme has not been confirmed.
Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon pic.twitter.com/9ko3uu0IsC
— A24 (@A24) July 15, 2024
