Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino keen for sequel with Armie Hammer and Timothee Chalamet
Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has confirmed that he would like to turn the Oscar-nominated film into a series of films that deal with the AIDS crisis.
The film is set in 1983 in Italy and tells the story of Elio (Timothée Chalamet) who falls in love with Oliver, played by Armie Hammer, an American academic who comes to stay at his family’s home.
Based on a book, Guadagnino has revealed that there are an additional 40 pages in the novel that he did not touch upon in the film, and so he believes that the story can continue.
‘The novel has 40 pages at the end that goes through the next 20 years of the lives of Elio and Oliver, so there is some sort of indication through the intention of author Andre Aciman that the story can continue,’ Guadagnino revealed.
‘In my opinion, Call Me can be the first chapter of the chronicles of the life of these people that we met in this movie, and if the first one is a story of coming of age and becoming a young man, maybe the next chapter will be, what is the position of the young man in the world, what does he want — and what is left a few years later of such an emotional punch that made him who he is?’
It is thought that Guadagnino would ideally like the films to become part of a series, similar to the Before Sunrise films.
Timothee Chalamet stars in the film as Elio, and is now up for best actor at the annual Academy Awards on 4 March.
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‘I think Elio will be a cinephile,’ added Guadagnino of where the character may end up.
‘And I’d like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali’s Once More, a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS.
‘That could be the first scene [in the sequel].’
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