Call Me By Your Name director plans sequel with Timothée Chalamet
"It’s more like the chronicles of Elio..."
Words: Alastair James; pictures: Mongrel Media/Sony Pictures and Wiki Commons
The director of the acclaimed gay romance Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, has said he still wants to make a sequel to the 2017 film and that he wants Timothée Chalamet to return in the lead role.
CMBYN was received positively upon its release for its adaptation of André Aciman’s novel. The film saw Chalamet star as the young Elio who falls for his father’s student, Oliver played by Armie Hammer.
Speaking at the Telluride Film Festival Guadagnino confirmed he wanted to make a sequel, but disagreed with that terminology.
Luca Guadagnino (Photo: Wiki Commons)
“A sequel is an American concept. It’s more like the chronicles of Elio, the chronicles of this young boy becoming a man. It is something I want to do,” as reported by Indiewire.
Guadagnino and Chalamet have also collaborated on Bones and All, which also starred Michael Stuhlbarg who played Elio’s sympathetic father in CMBYN.
Speaking of Chalamet the Italian director said: “It’s not as if I left Timothée at the height of his booming success, and then I found him four years later. We kept close. I knew that there was not much time to wait until we worked together, but only for the right project.”
Last June Guadagnino dampened hopes for a follow-up to CMBYN by saying that while his heart is “still there” for the project, he was too busy adding that after Bones and All, “I’m hopefully going to do Scarface soon, and I have many projects and so will focus on this side of the Atlantic and the movies I want to make.”
Before that, the director had indicated the project was a-go with both Chalamet and Hammer indicating their interest in returning to their respective roles.
Since then Chalamet has gone on to star in epics such as Dune and the upcoming Willy Wonka film, while Hammer’s career has nosedived following allegations concerning rape and cannibalism which he has denied.
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