Timothée Chalamet lines up surprise film announcement after Marty Supreme Oscars row
Timothée Chalamet stokes buzz with a cryptic new movie tease as Dune: Part Three barrels toward a box office showdown with Avengers: Doomsday.
Timothée Chalamet just lit the fuse on his next move. After the whole Marty Supreme awards saga, he popped back onto Instagram to say he is announcing his next movie tomorrow. No drama, no grandstanding — just a calm post that basically told everyone to clear some space on their feeds.
The tease
Chalamet shared an Instagram Story with a quiet, scenic backdrop and a simple heads-up: announcement tomorrow. The vibe was very much not Dune — no Arrakis dust, no blue-in-blue eyes — which is all it took for the rumor mill to start spinning again. Even the trades-and-Twitter crowd rallied around it:
'Timothée Chalamet is set to announce a new movie tomorrow.'
That alone was enough to get fans and industry watchers guessing.
How we got here
2025 's Marty Supreme was the performance that shifted the Chalamet conversation from 'potential' to 'what does the legacy look like.' For months he was treated like a near-lock for Best Actor — right up until nomination morning, when he got snubbed and the Marty Supreme vs. the Oscars debate took on a life of its own. Awards bodies might have tapped the brakes, but he clearly did not.
What this new project might be
- High Side (rumored): Frequently floated as the frontrunner post-Story. It is a superbike heist thriller linked to director James Mangold — a left turn tonally from Chalamet's recent prestige run. It is still in development with no start date nailed down, but if this is the one, it is a smart genre pivot that broadens his lane.
- Other whispers: There is chatter about more music-adjacent work after the Bob Dylan biopic, and talk of an auteur-led drama after Dune: Part Three. None of that is confirmed, so treat it like what it is — speculation until we hear it from the source.
The immediate horizon
Before any mystery movie lands, Chalamet is back as Paul Atreides in Dune: Part Three in six months. That one opens the same day as Avengers: Doomsday, which sets up a box-office weekend people will be arguing about for years. For what it is worth, Chalamet and Robert Downey Jr. have both framed the shared date as an 'event' rather than a brawl — which is a classy way of saying everyone expects fireworks.
Bottom line
We get answers tomorrow. If it is High Side, expect a gear shift. If it is something else entirely, well, that is the point — the mystery is doing most of the marketing right now.