It’s no secret that Marty Supreme made quite the splash in theaters. The wildly popular ping-pong drama was a swing and a smash. Timothee Chalamet delivers a captivating performance as the young Marty Mauser, and received his much deserved flowers, too. The actor recently took home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture for Musical or Comedy. What makes a movie about ping-pong even better? Vampires. Or least that’s what director Josh Safdie originally envisioned. Yep, you heard right. Safdie’s initial pitch for Marty Supreme was for it to end with Kevin O’Leary’s character as a vampire biting Chalamet. Wild.
I know what you’re thinking. This has to be a joke, right? Well, A24 thought the same thing when Safdie first pitched it. But it’s for real. The director confirmed the idea in a recent episode of the A24 podcast with filmmaker Sean Baker (Anora). The alternate ending would’ve time jumped to the 1980s, where we see an elderly Marty taking his granddaughter to a concert. Suddenly, O’Leary’s character jumps out of nowhere and takes a big bite out of Marty’s neck, revealing that he’s a vampire.
“You’re on his eyes, we built the prosthetic for Timmy and everything, and Mr. Wonderful shows up behind him and takes a bite out of his neck, and that was the last thing in the movie,” Safdie said to Baker.
It’s pretty wild to imagine the movie ending like that. But, given Safdie’s inclusion of other elements from the decade, it honestly wouldn’t have been all that surprising. Guess we’ll never know.
You Can Check Out The Full Episode With Safdie and Baker Here.
Even though Safdie’s original plan for the ending of Marty Supreme might not have made the final cut, it is hilarious to imagine Mr. Wonderful sporting a glorious pair of chompers. One can dream. We didn’t get vampires, but we did get a pretty remarkable film. You can still catch Marty Supreme in theaters.