Timothée Chalamet has signed up to appear in Josh Safdie’s upcoming new film about a famous ping-pong player.
Chalamet is due to star in and produce Marty Supreme, a new original movie from Safdie and A24.
As per Variety, the film is set to be inspired by professional ping pong player Marty Reisman.
Reisman who was known as the “wizard of table tennis” began his career hustling in Manhattan, playing ping pong for bets and prize money. From 1947-2002, he played professionally, winning 22 ping pong titles and five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. He also competed, aged 67, in the United States National Hardbat Championship and became the oldest player to win an open national in a racket sport.
The film has been written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein, who will also produce. The film also sees Safdie reunite with producer A24, who distributed his last two films, Uncut Gems and Good Time.
A24 also later confirmed the news in a post on social media, writing: “Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon.”
Josh Safdie's MARTY SUPREME starring @RealChalamet. Coming soon pic.twitter.com/9ko3uu0IsC
— A24 (@A24) July 15, 2024
Back in May, new footage of Chalamet as Bob Dylan in the upcoming biopic A Complete Unknown emerged online.
Back in April, the Dune star was captured in New Jersey filming a scene alongside Monica Barbaro, who plays Joan Baez.
Footage emerged of Chalamet filming scenes in Hoboken with Edward Norton (who plays Pete Seeger).
The biopic, which is currently titled after lyrics in Dylan’s song ‘Like A Rolling Stone’, will also star Elle Fanning and Boyd Holbrook.
The movie is set to explore Dylan’s transition to using the electric guitar in the ’60s, his rise to fame, and his subsequent achievement of icon status in the folk-rock music industry.
It was confirmed by director James Mangold last year that Chalamet will sing in A Complete Unknown, with the actor having showcased his vocal abilities in the recent musical movie Wonka.
Meanwhile, in a recent interview with NME alongside his Dune: Part Two co-star Austin Butler, Chalamet said he would have liked Butler’s version of Elvis Presley, from the Baz Luhrmann hit Elvis, to appear in A Complete Unknown.
The post Timothée Chalamet signs up to Josh Safdie’s film about a ping-pong player appeared first on NME.
