{"id":233390,"date":"2026-01-14T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233390\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:10:08","slug":"marty-supreme-almost-ended-with-an-actual-vampire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/233390\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Marty Supreme’ Almost Ended With an Actual Vampire"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first post about Marty Supreme you\u2019re seeing on io9 or Gizmodo, and for good reason. It\u2019s because we write about technology<\/a> and sci-fi movies<\/a>, and Marty Supreme is a period piece about a ping pong player.<\/a> There\u2019s no technology. No science fiction. Just the portrait of a man, played by Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet, chasing his dreams in some of the wildest ways imaginable. It\u2019s an awesome movie, but not something that would normally get covered on this website. But, it turns out, it almost could have been. It almost ended with Marty being bitten by a vampire.<\/p>\n

How does that make any sense at all? Well, in the film, at one of its most crucial moments, Marty is about to break a deal he made with a businessman named Milton Rockwell (played by Shark Tank star Kevin O\u2019Leary, aka \u201cMr. Wonderful\u201d). Just as Rockwell realizes Marty is about to betray him, he whispers the following: \u201cI was born in 1601. I\u2019m a vampire. I\u2019ve been around forever. I\u2019ve met many Marty Mausers over the centuries. Some of them crossed me, some of them weren\u2019t straight. They weren\u2019t honest. And those are the ones that are still here. You go out and win that game, you\u2019re gonna be here forever, too. And you\u2019ll never be happy. You will never be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the film as it stands now, it\u2019s just a very chilling way for this guy to try to scare Marty into thinking he\u2019s making the wrong decision. It\u2019s not literal. But, in an early version of the script, it was.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the A24 Podcast<\/a> (thanks to the Playlist<\/a> for the heads up), the film\u2019s co-writer and director, Josh Safdie, revealed that Marty Supreme almost ended in a very different way. After Marty returns to the U.S., the film would\u2019ve shown us what he did for the next several decades. All the incredible success he\u2019d have in business. Then, he and his granddaughter would go to a Tears for Fears concert in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s thinking about \u2018Everybody Wants to Rule the World\u2019 and youth and what does it mean, and he has this success, but he\u2019s not doing the thing that he believed he was born on planet to do,\u201d Safdie said. \u201cAnd you\u2019re on his eyes\u2014we built the prosthetics for Timmy and everything\u2014and Mr. Wonderful shows up behind him and takes a bite out of his neck. And that was the last scene of the movie. And he hasn\u2019t aged. I remember A24, and everyone were like, \u2018This is a mistake, right?’\u201d<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t a mistake at the time, but, of course, it\u2019s not in the movie, so someone realized maybe it was at some point. Nevertheless, on a list of all-time insane, alternate endings to movies, this has to be right up there.<\/p>\n

You can hear Safdie talk about the scene beginning around 45 minutes into the podcast below.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the first post about Marty Supreme you\u2019re seeing on io9 or Gizmodo, and for good reason.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,89736,56403,409,111,139,69,45005,36129],"class_list":{"0":"post-233390","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-josh-safdie","10":"tag-marty-supreme","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-new-zealand","13":"tag-newzealand","14":"tag-nz","15":"tag-timothee-chalamet","16":"tag-vampires"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}