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- Timothée Chalamet is in final negotiations to star in ‘Marty Supreme’.
- It will follow the career of ping pong pro Marty Reisman.
- Josh Safdie co-wrote the film and will direct it.
Over the past few years, we’ve gotten used to seeing Timothée Chalamet as fantastical characters –– the troubled Paul Atreides of Dune or the cheerful chocolatier who lends his name to Wonka in the ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ prequel.
Yet for the potential new film, as reported by Variety, he will tackle a real-life sports hero, though he is rarely brought to the screen in sports.
Chalamet is now in final negotiations to star in and co-produce a new movie about ping pong pro Marty Reisman called ‘Marty Supreme.’
Who was Marty Reisman?
Marty Reisman in the documentary ‘Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler’.
Reisman was a table tennis champion who began his career as a hustler in Manhattan, playing for bets and prize money.
He won 22 major ping pong titles from 1946 to 2002 and five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships.
At the age of 67, he competed in the United States National Hardbat Championship and became the oldest player to win an Open National competition in a racquet sport. He was known as the “Wizard of Table Tennis” and even opened for the Harlem Globetrotters with his ping pong comedy routine.
In 1974, Reisman published an autobiography, The Money Player: The Confessions of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler. It also inspired a 2014 television documentary titled ‘Fact or Fiction: The Life and Times of a Ping Pong Hustler’. Reisman died in 2012.
Who is working in the new film?
Adam Sandler in ‘Uncut James’. Photo: A24.
“Uncut Gems” filmmaker Josh Safdie co-wrote the film with Ronald Bronstein, and the pair will also produce.
Safdie is best known for working with his brother Benny Safdie in films including ‘Good Time’ and ‘James’, although the two brothers have gone their separate ways to work on their own films (Benny is in production on the MMA biopic ‘The Smashing Machine’ with Dwayne). Johnson is in the lead.
What else is Timothée Chalamet involved in?
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in director James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown. Photo: James Mangold’s Twitter account.
The actor recently worked on James Mangold’s ‘A Complete Unknown’, about the younger days of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan (Chalmet plays Dylan).
Apart from that, ‘Marty Supreme’ will be the only project that has been announced, although given the demand for the young actor, there is every chance that several other potential movies are in development.
Chalamet is also likely to reunite with Villeneuve for a planned third ‘Dune’ outing, ‘Dune Messiah’, although it’s still very early and the director may make another movie or two before he returns to the sci-fi world. -fi story.
‘Wonka.’ Timothee Chalamet at a fan event for Photo credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2023 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved.
