Looks like The Safdies are really into sports biopics.
Timothée Chalamet will star in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” a sports biopic about professional ping pong player Marty Reisman, set to be produced by A24.
“Marty Supreme” is written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein. A24 is already producing Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine,” another sports biopic, this one about MMA fighter Mark Kerr.
“Marty Supreme” will reunite Josh with A24, which distributed his last two films, “Uncut Gems” and “Good Time. Reisman’s 1974 autobiography “The Money Player: The Confessions of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler,” will be used as a template for the screen adaptation. Here’s Variety …
Reisman, who died in 2012, was a table tennis champion who started 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 won five bronze medals at the World Table Tennis Championships. At 67, he competed in the United States National Hardbat Championship and became the oldest player to win an open national competition in a racket sport.