The director of Marty Supreme reveals that Timothée Chalamet’s desk tennis film initially ended with a vampire twist. Marty Supreme is one other chaotic entry from Uncut Gems co-director Josh Safdie, which follows the relentlessly decided Marty Mauser (Chalamet), who endeavors to change into a global tennis star, and is prone to be a 2026 Greatest Image nominee.
However as loopy because the film is, Safdie revealed in a dialogue on the A24 podcast that Marty Supreme might have ended with Kevin O’Leary’s character being revealed to be a vampire, as he assaults an older Marty. The alternate ending would have seen the remainder of Marty’s life go by, and when he’s attending a Tears for Fears live performance together with his granddaughter within the Eighties, “Mr. Great” exhibits up.
“You are on his eyes, we constructed the prosthetics for Timmy and every part, and Mr. Great exhibits up behind him and takes a chew out of his neck, and that was the final picture,” stated Safdie to director Sean Baker (Anora). O’Leary’s character, in a strict sense, is businessman Milton Rockwell, the husband of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kay Stone, an actress who’s having an affair with Marty.
Rockwell does, at one level within the film, retort to Marty: “I used to be born in 1601. I am a vampire. I have been round endlessly. I’ve met many Marty Mausers over the centuries.” Safdie additionally shared in his interview that O’Leary got here up with this line once they and co-writer Ronald Bronstein have been making an attempt to determine how Rockwell would reply to Marty espousing his personal worldview.
“And I bear in mind A24,” Safdie stated, in regards to the lower ending, “and everybody have been like, ‘This can be a mistake, proper?’” However the filmmaker additionally defined how this twist really performed into the film’s themes, saying: “We had an thought at one level, which form of speaks to the music within the movie, the music within the film is that this built-in feeling of, to begin with, the timelessness of it, what anachronism does, the previous searching the longer term, the longer term searching the previous.“
Safdie additional stated in regards to the lower closing scene: “They’re nice seats [at the concert], up entrance, and he is [Marty] watching it, and he is desirous about “All people Desires to Rule the World” and youth and what does it imply, and he has this success, however he is not doing the factor that he believed he was born on the planet to do. He has all this nice stuff round, he has these nice issues round him.“
The actual ending of Marty Supreme sees Marty, having crushed the desk tennis world champion in a casual however publicized match, returning house to see Rachel (Odessa A’zion), whom he deserted on the hospital to go to Japan whereas she was wounded and in labor. The final shot is of him crying when he sees the newborn, prepared to simply accept the kid as his personal.
In the meantime, Kay has didn’t make her comeback when her new play receives a horrible evaluation, and Rockwell has no additional curiosity in Marty after he derailed their plan, which was for Marty to deliberately lose his match in Japan. Rockwell refuses to deliver Marty again to the U.S., and he will get a trip house with the American troopers who have been additionally on the occasion.
Marty Supreme has a 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and is seeing a good variety of main awards nominations, so the conclusion Safdie and his workforce went with labored out. However the alternate vampire ending nonetheless ties into parts which might be nonetheless current within the film.
- Launch Date
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December 19, 2025
- Runtime
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150 minutes
- Director
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Josh Safdie
- Writers
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Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie
- Producers
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Anthony Katagas, Ronald Bronstein, Timothée Chalamet, Eli Bush, Joe Visitor, Jennifer Venditti, John Paul Lopez-Ali, Maiko Endo