Timothée Chalamet’s ‘Marty Supreme’ Gets Surprise NYFF Premiere

New York Film Festival audiences will get the first look at Timothée Chalamet in Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme.”

The A24 film is one of the year’s most anticipated, but it remained one of the few remaining awards contenders to be unveiled. That changed Monday evening, when the indie studio gave “Marty Supreme” a surprise world premiere at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. The setting makes sense given that Safdie is a quintessential Big Apple filmmaker, Chalamet is a native son and the film was shot in the five boroughs. Both the star and the director are in attendance.

The screening was confirmed after the audience had filled the seats for the festival’s secret screening and Safdie took the stage.

“I hate surprises too,” Safdie said to the crowd. The secret screening was a tight deadline for the director, as he added, “I finished it at 2 a.m. yesterday. … You’re the first audience to see this film.”

Chalamet then joined his director onstage to introduce the film, disclosing a personal connection to the evening. The star shared that he went to high school down the street from Alice Tully, so “it’s fucking awesome” to premiere at NYFF.

Based on the “Marty Supreme” trailer, Chalamet appears to be playing an aspiring ping-pong champion. Gwyneth Paltrow, who co-stars in the film, previously said she plays the wife of a rival professional who has an affair with Chalamet. “I mean, we have a lot of sex in this movie,” Paltrow teased. “There’s a lot — a lot.”

The cast also includes Odessa A’Zion, Kevin O’Leary, Tyler Okonma, Abel Ferrara and Fran Drescher. Safdie co-wrote the script with Ronald Bronstein.

The film cost $70 million, making it A24’s most expensive movie ever. The premiere comes as the studio’s “The Smashing Machine,” which was directed by Josh Safdie’s brother Benny, is failing to connect at the box office despite good reviews. The Safdies previously collaborated as co-directors on “Good Times” and “Uncut Gems.”

The New York Film Festival has held premieres for several awards contenders, including Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Luca Guadagnino’s “After the Hunt,” Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” and Scott Cooper’s “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”