In lieu of a Call Me By Your Name sequel, Luca Guadagnino is just reuniting (some of) the cast
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After talking about it for a long time, Luca Guadagnino finally seemed committed to making a sequel to Call Me By Your Name last year, having met with a secret screenwriter and gotten confirmation that “everyone” from the first movie would be in the sequel. Unfortunately, it all got put on hold in April of 2020 when some kind of global pandemic sprung up that destroyed everything and continues to destroy a whole lot of things even though we’re all pretending life is normal again.
Now, while speaking with Deadline during a break from shooting his new movie Bones And All, Guadagnino casually implied that he never really wanted to make a Call Me By Your Name sequel anyway. He’s working on all sorts of new projects, like the aforementioned Bones And All, the Lord Of The Flies movie he might make, and also the Scarface remake he’s still going to make. (Which means we didn’t dream the news story that Luca Guadagnino was going to make a new Scarface movie.) Also, Call Me By Your Name star Timothée Chalamet is in every movie now, so he doesn’t really have time for that sequel any time soon. And that’s it, there are no other reasons! Not even something related to the fact that the other star of Call Me By Your Name has become Hollywood poison.
On a totally unrelated note, both Chalamet and his Call Me By Your Name dad Michael Stuhlbarg are going to be in Bones And All, because Guadagnino evidently likes working with those actors and wants to work with them again—but not in a sequel to Call Me By Your Name, which he wanted to do a year ago but does not have time for now. The movie will also star André Holland, Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Francesca Scorsese, David Gordon Green, Taylor Russell, and Mark Rylance.
Bones And All is about “a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society” and “an intense and disenfranchised drifter” on some kind of journey through the “back roads, hidden passages, and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America.” Last we heard, the movie had some kind of cannibalism storyline, which… is a bizarre coincidence, considering the controversy surrounding Call Me By Your Name’s Armie Hammer, especially now that there are three people from that movie involved in this movie. Basically, the allegations against him are now hanging over movies he’s not even in.
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Do a commentary track for the Suspiria remake, you coward!
This is one of the rare situations where I’m pretty sure the pandemic isn’t the primary roadblock.
They wanted to make this movie but……Then the hammer came down
Lord, the hammer came down
I happily applaud this news. Call Me By Your Name did not require a sequel. I thought it was OK but not as groundbreaking as others did. That said, it told a complete story that didn’t need any follow up. A sequel would not have added or improved anything.
Did not require Another Gay Summer?
Armie Hammer’s character turns 30…and he’s still diddling high school boys.Or maybe Elio reaches his mid-20s, and starts diddling high school boys?
Welp, David Gordon Green went ahead and did the one thing that could surprise me from him filmmaking-wise: pivot to acting. Genuinely weird casting here, and I hope the finished thing reflects the taste/work of some of the folks in front of the camera.
I’m not 100% certain it has something to do with Armie Hammer being a rapist with a cannibal fetish. But it’s very likely it has something to do with Armie Hammer being a rapist with a cannibal fetish.
They dropped their good friend Armie like a hot potato, didn’t they? Like, as in, no one seemed the least bit shocked at the accusations. Not even a smidge.
Maybe if he hadn’t been gnawing on Timothée Chalamet’s arm during their scenes together…?Meanwhile, Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen are smirking at Arme Hammer and saying, “Good! You can field the cannibal jokes for a change!”
I bet he tastes absolutely peachy… 🍑
Competely Unretouched Photo of Arme Hammer with Timothée Chalamet
Stop! Hammer Time!
That was his -arm- he was gnawing on??
Well, between takes….
#CallMeByAnyNameButHammer
#ButDon’tCallHimLateForLunch
Hi-Yoo!
Was he convicted of rape?
They can actually make a sequel without him people even those that had a impact on someone can go away and never seen again. Anyways the fake sex scenes were creepy Chalma the though a adult looks like a teen and Hammer was way to old for his part.
hey hey hey… “ALLEGEDLY”.It ALLEGEDLY has something to do with Armie Hammer being a rapist cannibal.
Luca Guadagnino is one of those directors who announces ten times more movies than he actually makes, which kind of sucks because he is also a director who I really want to have made ten times more movies than he has.
Same with del Toro.
Still waiting on an At the Mountains of Madness movie…
I want Suspiria sequels that remake the other Mothers.
Sequel? You and what Armie?
Apparently the editors don’t bother with the weekend crew
In order to give readers a refreshing break from the Armie Hammer jokes, Tim Chalamet looks like a 17th century European aristocrat who’s doomed to die from scrofula or the gripping ague before he turns 19.
yeah, I hope he’s real proud of himself. Looks like a nice boy in that photo.
Initially, I thought I was interested in a sequel to Call Me By Your Name, even though the movie is problematic for me for various reasons. However, sequel plot that had been discussed was even more problematic for me than the original, so letting it go is for the best. Besides the completely disturbing developments in Armie Hammer’s life, I have become much less interested in Timothée Chalamet, as an actor, and I find the acclaim for Luca Guadagnino to be mildly surprising/confusing. I am just “meh” on the whole concept. Call Me By Your Name just didn’t tick the boxes in a way that makes me care anymore. I think the thing that made me appreciate the movie while I was in the theater was the fact that I was living in the south of France as a closeted gay teen at roughly the same time as Timothée’s character, Elio was living in Italy. I didn’t live any of the plot of the movie, but the atmosphere was so evocative and palpable, that it sort of time travelled my soul. I really fell for the movie in the moment, but once I left the theater, out in the sunshine of day, the details of the movie fell apart. Chatter about some of the behind the scenes machinations furthered the movies value, I haven’t even been interested in revisiting the movie at home.
On the other hand I am still bothered by the fact that a LGBT movie that came out at the same time as Call Me By Your Name, has still never gotten the attention it deserves. God’s Own Country is a far superior film than Call Me By Your Name, and though it has certainly received critical acclaim, it has never gotten the press coverage or promotion that it deserves. It is visually beautiful, evocative, heart rending and explicit. Since it is coming on to Pride month, I hope that God’s Own Country gets a bit more coverage and promotion. It is such a worthy watch.
As is my favorite recent-ish (2014! Wow time flys) gay coming-of-age romantic drama, The Way He Looks. Also superior to CMBYN. It’s a movie I can revisit every so often when I just want to feel good, along with a number of Studio Ghibli movies (lol).
God’s Own Country is wonderful and, like you said, superior to Call Me By Your Name in every way.
“Chatter about some of the behind the scenes machinations furthered the movies value”I need an editor… The behind the scenes goings on DE-valued the movie…
bullshit, God’s Own Country is just brokeback mountain in yorkshire. just farmers fucking.
So you didn’t actually pay attention to what? the last third of the movie? You missed the lack of protagonist deaths, the denial of their sexuality and love, and the overall positive resolution to the plot?
mhm I didn’t catch the first. Perfect men doing perfect things for the perfect summer. I mean, really, my banker father owns a yacht and I’m a muscled yet brilliant abstract painter who feeds the poor at a food bank on the weekend in Sicily, Italy. One day I meet Dartagnio, a violinist holidaying with his famous mother, a retired and reclusive movie actress prone to drunkeness. There, see, a new movie script. Greenlight this, Hollywood.
So upset we won’t get a sequel to that touching story about a grown man grooming and diddling a high school boy.Maybe Kevin Spacey could fill in?
“Grooming and diddling”.
Can’t really think of another way to describe the plot, haha.I’ve been a 24 year old grad student – my lower limit was 20, and a 17 year old having a crush on me didn’t change that.