There are no shortage of sports movies spread throughout the annals of cinema history. From Rocky to Space Jam, Field Of Dreams to The Iron Claw, and from Challengers to Goal! to Dodgeball, name a sporting pursuit and there's probably a movie or a dozen about it. That being said, there has never been a film dedicated to the wonderful world of ping pong… until now. Following hot on the heels of his brother's MMA biopic The Smashing Machine, Josh Safdie is picking up the directorial paddle for Marty Supreme, a Timothée Chalamet led A24 joint based on the life of legendary table tennis champ Marty Reisman. And if the new trailer for the movie is anything to go by, it looks like Safdie and Timmy C are about to serve something unmissable. Check it out below;
Hoo boy — just when we thought we'd recovered from one intense Safdie sports movie, here comes another! Set to a foreboding cut of Tears For Fears' classic 'Everybody Wants To Rule The World', this latest look at Marty Supreme perfectly tees up what Josh Safdie has been cooking: a 50s-set fictionalised biopic charting the hustle, struggle, rise, rise, and rise of Marty Mauser (Supreme's Reisman analogue) from hardbat hustler on the streets of New York to world beating "wizard of table tennis". Along the way, it looks like we're in for intense relationship drama involving Gwyneth Paltrow and Odessa A’zion, some butting of heads with Tyler 'The Creator' Okonma (making his feature debut), and some kinetic ping pong action on the court/table — all shot through with that signature, street-level Safdie grit.
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Penned by Josh Safdie alongside he and his brother's Good Time and Uncut Gems co-scribe Ronald Bronstein, Marty Supreme is set to hit UK cinemas on 26 December. Here's hoping we're in for a Boxing Day banger with this one — and if not, then may thy paddle chip and shatter!