Fran Drescher Boards A24 Timothée Chalamet Movie ‘Marty Supreme’

Fran Drescher is joining Josh Safdie's A24 movie, Marty Supreme .

The SAG-AFTRA President will star opposite Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler, The Creator, Odessa A'zion, Penn Jillette, Kevin O'Leary a.k.a Mr. Wonderful and Abel Ferrara.

The original screenplay written by Safdie and Ronald Bronstein is based loosely on Marty Reisman's life, set in the world of 1950s Ping Pong culture. Reisman was known to be unconventional in the sport, yet won two U.S. Men's Singles Championships in 1958 and 1960 and more than 20 international and national titles. He became famous for mastering the hardbat style, a traditional style of table tennis that uses a racket without a sponge layer to emphasize control and spin over speed and power. His mastery of the sport earned him a reputation as one of table tennis' last greats of that era.

Producers are Eli Bush, Anthony Katagas, Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Timothée Chalamet and A24.

The film is currently in production.

Drescher is a 2x Primetime Emmy Comedy Series Best Actress nominee for the CBS sitcom The Nanny which she also co-created. Drescher is reprising her role as Bobbi Flekman in Rob Reiner's Spinal Tap II. Her feature credits include Saturday Night Fever, Ragtime, Francis Ford Coppola's Jack, The Beautician and the Beast and the Hotel Transylvania franchise. She also, co-created, wrote and starred in the TVLand series Happily Divorced.

Drescher was elected for two terms as president of SAG-AFTRA in 2021 and, in 2023. Last year she led the actors union in a five-month strike that notched performers an an increase in their minimum pay, new streaming residuals and protection against artificial intelligence.

Variety first had the news.