The A24 feature is directed by Josh Safdie ( Uncut Gems, Good Time ), who also wrote the screenplay with his longtime collaborator Ronald Bronstein. Chalamet stars as Marty Mauser, a born hustler and talented ping-pong player, who is loosely based on the real-life American table tennis champion Marty Reisman.

“Marty Supreme” is a story of a guy burdened by how great he thinks he’s supposed to be. How very American.

Josh Safdie is on his own for Marty Supreme, which plays like a cross between Good Time and a Will Ferrell sports comedy.

Built like a two-by-four with acne scars, freckles and a pencil mustache, Marty Mauser is simultaneously blessed and cursed with absurd quantities of unearned self-confidence. The movies have rarely given us such an entitled underdog,

Timothée Chalamet plays a rising 1950s table-tennis star, who’s so driven to succeed he doesn’t care who gets trampled in his upward climb.

Odessa A’zion plays Rachel Mizler, Marty’s long-time friend who works in a pet store. A’zion is known for Hellraiser (2022), Sitting in Bars with Cake, Fresh Kills, and TV roles in Nashville and Grand Army.

The Marty Supreme Invitational takes place in the Lower East Side on Dec. 17 to celebrate the upcoming release of the A24 film starring Timothée Chalamet.