The Marty Supreme Vampire Alternate Ending Is Real

Josh Safdie really considered ending Marty Supreme with a real zig of a supernatural zag. Speaking to Sean Baker on The A24 Podcast, Safdie confirmed that Kevin O’Leary’s 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 MTV-generation coda.

Safdie said the film almost ended with Marty Mauser taking his granddaughter to a Tears for Fears show in the ’80s. “His 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’re great seats, up front, and he’s watching it,” he said. “And he’s thinking about ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World,’ and youth, and what does it mean, and he has this success, but he’s not doing the thing that he believed he was born on the planet to do.” And then, boom! An ageless Mr. Wonderful chomps him on the neck. Safdie said plans for that ending went as far as starting on Timothée Chalamet’s old-man prosthetics. A24 balked though, with one executive asking Safdie, “This is a mistake, right?” Probably for the best. 

Kevin O’Leary had previously hinted at the vampire ending to Marty Supreme, saying he’d gone as far as having “digital teeth” 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.