Then it ended in heartbreak as gentle as the sun slipping beneath the sea. It conjured a swoony romance between two young men, Elio and Oliver, in an Italian seaside town. I know Luca really wants it. And I know Armie and I are 1000% in.The novel “ Call Me by Your Name,” by André Aciman, was published in 2007 and adapted into a movie in 2017. He continued: “I think André is comfortable with a sequel being made. Speaking to Time magazine, the actor said: “I don’t see any world where it doesn’t happen.” So Luca wants to wait so that we age a bit more so that gap makes sense, kind of like a Linklater thing.”Ĭhalamet also confirmed that both he and Hammer are up for a sequel to the beloved film.

“Chronologically in the story line, it doesn’t happen right after the first one,” he explained. He’s basically broken this down for us.”īut despite the story already being planned out, Armie said the film won’t be arriving for a while – and it sounds like we’ll have years to wait for it. “Luca has walked me through the movie: where it starts, where it goes, where it ends, all the characters, and everything that’s supposed to happen,” he said, according to Vulture. Last month, Hammer appeared at the Savannah College of Art and Design Film Festival, and once again confirmed that a Call Me By Your Name sequel is happening, and said Guadagino already knows what will happen in it. Guadagnino added that they just need to finalise the script before they can figure out when filming could begin.

The film’s director, Luca Guadagnino, told USA Today at the start of this year that he was working on a sequel with Aciman, which is going to be a “new movie, a different tone” which will take place “five or six years afterwards”. “I would actually love a sequel to Call Me By Your Name. Shortly after its release, fans clamoured for a sequel because the final scene in the film isn’t where the story ends in Aciman’s novel, with Oliver and Elio’s romance lingering over them both for another two decades.Īciman revealed on Twitter earlier today that we’re going to receive more insight into both characters and their lives after that summer, because he’s working on a follow-up.

It was subsequently nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The novel was recently adapted into a motion picture starring American actors Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, and received universal acclaim from critics. Call Me By Your name author André Aciman is writing a sequel to his bestselling novel.

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