Do not look now, people, however we immediately have an arm’s race of Safdie Brother films on our arms. The sibling director duo, most well-known for movies like “Good Time” and “Uncut Gems” in recent times, have since gone their separate methods. Benny Safdie is at the moment centered on “The Smashing Machine,” the Dwayne Johnson-starring MMA drama that clearly has its sights set on awards season. Josh, in the meantime, is taking purpose at related material with a bona fide film star in his personal proper. “Marty Supreme” options Timothée Chalamet within the lead function, portraying a real-life ping pong aficionado — sure, you learn that proper. It stays to be seen whether or not the Safdies’ divide-and-conquer method will repay however, properly, getting twice the quantity of Sadie Brother films in the identical 12 months seems like a win to me.
Indie studio A24 is dealing with the distribution for each of the brothers’ films, and it is simply launched our first prolonged take a look at “Marty Supreme” with a brand new trailer. The footage from the Fifties-set adaptation undoubtedly reveals off all of the hallmarks we have come to know and love from a Safdie film. What’s extra, we are able to just about assure you’ve got by no means seen the game of ping pong (if it may be thought-about a sport?) rendered with as a lot dramatics as it’s right here. Oh, and like “Uncut Gems” earlier than it, this apparently includes a cameo by essentially the most sudden — and controversial — of figures. Let’s simply say that followers of the entrepreneurial actuality TV sequence “Shark Tank” are in for one heck of a soar scare. Take a look at the trailer above!
Marty Supreme is channeling the identical oddball power as Uncut Gems
Move over, “Forrest Gump” and “Balls of Fury,” as a result of there is a new American ping pong prodigy on the town, and his title is Marty Reisman. “Marty Supreme” comes from director Josh Safdie and was co-written by each Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. And by all accounts, anybody who may’ve been nervous about Josh and Benny Safdie splitting up needn’t have apprehensive within the first place. The newly-released trailer may make the film appear like a reasonably commonplace biopic on the floor, however there’s simply sufficient oddball power within the margins to persuade us there’s far more occurring right here than meets the attention.
Simply take the ensemble solid, as an illustration. Timothée Chalamet will inevitably take in a variety of the headlines, naturally, together with co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Odessa A’zion, and even well-known movie figures Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher. However those that know their “Shark Tank” lore (a phrase I by no means anticipated to really sort out on Slashfilm.com) doubtless had been startled by one totally stunning solid member: Canadian businessman, failed politician, and blustering “Shark Tank” character Kevin O’Leary. This instantly brings to thoughts one other notorious cameo in the last Safdie Brothers film, “Uncut Gems,” when New York-area radio discuss present host Mike Francesa appeared in a pair of scenes as a bookie for Adam Sandler’s playing addict Howard. In contrast to that one, nonetheless, O’Leary seems to be taking part in fairly a large function reverse Chalamet’s Marty Reisman, which is nearly sure to stoke a good bit of controversy when one considers O’Leary’s real-life historical past that may be charitably described as “checkered.” In any case, all of this fictional and real-life drama can not help however remind us of “Uncut Gems” — hopefully for the higher.
“Marty Supreme” will hit theaters simply in time for the vacation season: December 25, 2025.
