Call Me By Your Name
Michael Stuhlbarg says film director Luca Guadagnino is"serious"about make aCall Me By Your Namesequel that picks up with Elio and Oliver a few years after their summer in Italy together . For his part , Guadagnino has said the next cinema wouldtake place in Berlin circa 1989 , six twelvemonth after the events of the first movie . The continuation would further plunk into the political science of the decadeby exploring the AIDS crisis , and has the support ofCall Me By Your Namebook generator Andrée Aciman .
Adapted for the sieve by writer James Ivory ( of Ivory & Merchant fame ) and directed by Guadagnino , Call Me By Your Name ’s sensuous tale of first erotic love against the picturesque backdrop of Northern Italy in the early ' fourscore became a runaway critical achiever when it hit field of operations last year . The film choke on to make headway Ivory his first Oscar and gross over ten time its $ 3.5 million budget at the global box office . Guadagnino has since spill the beans up the estimate of making a sequel ( or peradventure even sequels ) that follows the type as they age in real time . According to Stuhlbarg , the filmmaker is n’t just humoring reporters either , when they inquire him about the project .
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In an audience withFar Out Magazine , Stuhlbarg ( who play Elio ’s beginner ) confirmed that Guadagnino ’s mind is for theCall Me By Your Namesequel to beak up a few years after its predecessor,“to see what ’s happened to these character and the choices they ’ve made , and life after this particularly momentous summer for them all " . He also say the projection is"something [ Guadagnino is ] serious about"and that he and Aciman are"thrilled"by the estimate .
Call Me By Your Namethe novel has a different endingfrom the photographic film , in that it sweep the next twenty year after Oliver and Elio ’s summer romanticism ( whereas the movie cease a few months after ) . It ’s not clear if Guadagnino ’s sequel would filch anything from the close to Aciman ’s book , but Stuhlbarg suggested it ’s a possibility and noted “ There are lot of the book that we did n’t mine as thoroughly " . He go on to describe the first movie as a"very special experience " for the total cast and crew , but bestow he would"absolutely be game"to try and make a review that ’s as unique and memorable .
Seeing as Guadagnino is a extremely challenging filmmaker who does n’t like to reprise himself , aCall Me By Your Namesequel would furnish exactly the sort of challenge that he tends to both prefer and excel at . The thought of Guadagnino reuniting with hisCall Me By Your Namecrew ( include stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer ) is similarly intriguing , given the approach he has in mind . continuation to Oscar - winning film are n’t unremarkably a great mind , but this one feels like it could prove to be that rareGodfather : Part II - style elision to the principle .
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