Timothée Chalamet set to star in new A24 movie about table tennis champion Marty Reisman
Timothée Chalamet is set to star in Marty Supreme, a new movie directed by Josh Safdie with production company A24.
According to Variety, the new film appears to be inspired by real-life ping pong professional Marty Reisman, combined with a fictionalised, original story.
Written and produced by Safdie, Ronald Bronstein, Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, and Chalamet, Marty Supreme marks Safdie’s third movie with A24 following his previous features, Uncut Gems and Good Time.
Reisman, who died in 2012, was a table tennis champion known as the “wizard of table tennis”. Between 1946 and 2002, he won 22 major ping-pong titles and five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. He also participated in the United States National Hardbat Championship, becoming the oldest player to win an open national competition in a racket sport.
Chalamet has been a longtime fan of the Safdie brothers’ projects, notably writing an essay for Variety following the release of Uncut Gems, in which he 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.”
The actor recently wrapped filming on James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, a biographical drama based on Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electric! In the movie, Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan during the controversial period when he switched to more electric sets.
Chalamet’s latest release, Dune: Part Two, experienced significant commercial and critical success. In a four-and-a-half-star review, Far Out described the movie as “genuine cinematic brilliance”, saying: “The film is an absolute production masterpiece with prop and costume design at a masterful level of genius, allowing for a sense of believability in its world that never relents nor abates.”
Further details about Marty Supreme, including its release date and accompanying cast, have yet to be confirmed.
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