{"id":408538,"date":"2026-01-15T10:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:14:08","slug":"josh-safdie-confirms-marty-supreme-almost-ended-in-vampires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/408538\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Safdie Confirms Marty Supreme Almost Ended in Vampires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f610ca6449d482e8b98c55b72708a4bdfc-kevin-oleary.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" alt=\"US-ENTERTAINMENT-FILM-TELEVISION-AWARD-GLOBES-ARRIVALS\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  You can take my vampire teeth out of my cold, dead, watch-clad hands!<br \/>\n                  Photo: Michael Tran\/AFP via Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmkepgq6f000i0ifk6eh82118@published\" data-word-count=\"58\">Josh Safdie really considered ending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/what-does-the-auschwitz-flashback-in-marty-supreme-mean.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marty Supreme<\/a> with a real zig of a supernatural zag. Speaking to Sean Baker on the <a href=\"https:\/\/a24films.com\/notes\/2026\/01\/great-american-dream-show-with-josh-safdie-sean-baker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A24 Podcast<\/a>, Safdie confirmed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/how-mr-wonderful-became-an-actor-marty-supreme.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin O\u2019Leary<\/a>\u2019s Milton Rockwell was going to turn out to be a literal vampire and not just a metaphorical one. And just like Sinners, it would have had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/sinners-post-credits-scenes-explained.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MTV generation coda<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmkepsct600153b7avfkj7pmd@published\" data-word-count=\"143\">Safdie said the film almost ended with Marty Mauser taking his granddaughter to a Tears For Fears show in the 80s. \u201cHis family grows, he leaves the city, has this beautiful house, and it ends with him at a concert for Tears for Fears with his granddaughter. They\u2019re great seats, up front, and he\u2019s watching it,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd he\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 the planet to do.\u201d And then, boom! An ageless Mr. Wonderful chomps him on the neck. Safdie said plans for that ending went as far as starting on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s old man prosthetics. A24 balked though, with one executive asking Safdie \u201c\u2019This is a mistake, right?\u2019\u201d Probably for the best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmkepm92c000z3b7ag10fow9p@published\" data-word-count=\"54\">Kevin O\u2019Leary had previously hinted at the vampire ending to Marty Supreme, saying he\u2019d gone as far as having <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/news\/kevin-oleary-marty-supreme-ending-rachel-die-1236623761\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cdigital teeth\u201d<\/a> made for it. Whatever that means. Would the original ending have landed, or was A24 right in instructing Safdie to bffr. Either way, it would have made a killer double feature with Sinners. <\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can take my vampire teeth out of my cold, dead, watch-clad hands! 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