‘Call Me By Your Name’ Sequel Details Revealed, Actors Apparently Confirmed To Return
We’ve known thatCall Me By Your Name, last year’s romantic indie drama from directorLuca Guadagnino, was going to get a sequel for a little while now. The filmmaker has mentioned it a few times, but only in vague terms – until last Sunday night on the Oscars red carpet. There he revealed some newCall Me By Your Namesequel details, and seemed to confirm that actorsArmie HammerandTimothee Chalametwill return to reprise their roles.
Speaking withUSA Today, Guadagnino confirmed that he’s already hard at work on a follow-up to his sensual indie romance, and provided a few moreCall Me By Your Namesequel details:
“I’m already conceiving the story with André Aciman, and it’s gonna happen five or six years afterwards, so almost in 1990. It’s gonna be a new movie, a different tone. You’ll see a lot of the East Coast of America – they’re going to go around the world.”
When pressed whether the original cast of Hammer and Chalamet will be coming back to play Oliver and Elio, Guadagnino responded, “Of course! How can we not?” But it’s unclear whether that means that he and Aciman – who wrote the original novel on which the first film is based – are merely writing the film with those actors in mind, or if Hammer and Chalamet have literally already signed on to be a part of the sequel. They’ve all spoken very highly of their time filming together, so even if the actors aren’t signed yet, I don’t imagine it’ll be too tough to convince them to reunite and continue the story.
Guadagnino previously teased the idea that hemight actually end up making more than oneCall Me By Your Namesequel, invoking Michael Apted’sUpseries of documentaries that revisit with the same subjects every seven years. It remains to be seen how long fans will have to wait to see Elio and Oliver reunite on the big screen. When asked when he expects to start filmingCall Me By Your Name 2, Guadagnino simply said, “We have to get there with the script, but we will.” Previously, though, the directormentionedthat in three years, Timothee Chalamet’s actual age would align with what Elio’s age should be in this sequel, so we could be looking at a2021release.
Meanwhile, Guadagnino’s next project is a remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian horror filmSuspiria. “It’s a movie about guilt, and it’s about motherhood,” the director toldVarietyabout that project. “It has no primary colors in its color palette [unlike the original]. It’s the opposite ofCall Me.Call Meis light, warm, and summer-ish, andSuspiriais winter-ish, evil, and really dark.”
