Overview
- New footage spotlights Marty Mauser’s hustle-driven rise in 1950s New York, with sports gambling, shady cash and bursts of violence shaping the stakes.
- Gwyneth Paltrow appears as movie star Kay Stone opposite Timothée Chalamet, while Tyler, the Creator (credited as Tyler Okonma) features prominently as a close ally.
- The story is an original fiction loosely inspired by table-tennis legend Marty Reisman rather than a direct biopic.
- Josh Safdie’s first solo feature since 2008 was co-written with Ronald Bronstein and reunites him with cinematographer Darius Khondji and composer Oneohtrix Point Never.
- A secret New York Film Festival screening drew a standing ovation and sparked strong best-actor buzz for Chalamet as A24 pushes one of its priciest in-house productions.