Taylor Russell might team up with Timothée Chalamet, Luca Guadagnino for a cannibal romance
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Two-thirds of the star-director trio who made 2017's Call Me By Your Name a romantic success story are reportedly reuniting for a film about cannibalism—but not the two-thirds you might expect. Which is to say, Deadline is reporting that Timothée Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino are potentially teaming up with actress Taylor Russell for Bones & All, a new movie about a young woman who starts looking into her roots after realizing she has a deep compulsion to eat her romantic partners. It’s another prominent career milestone for Russell, who currently stars in Netflix’s Lost In Space, and who garnered acclaim in 2019 for her starring role in Trey Edward Shults’ coming-of-age drama Waves. But while we’d like to put our full focus here on Russell’s continued climb up the major movie star ladder—potentially working with the Suspiria director, and the uber-prolific Chalamet—there is, uh, another topic that’s lurking underneath here. One that, for better or for worse, makes discussing her two collaborators embarking on a movie about romantic cannibalism a little bit distracting tonight.
And, look: We have tried, very hard, not to highlight the “allegedly into eating people” aspects of the scandal currently enveloping Chalamet and Guadagnino’s old collaborator Armie Hammer of late, mostly because all the “I want to eat your ribs” allegations have a tendency to get in the way of, or obscure, the accusations of sexually abusive and manipulative behavior that have also been lodged against the actor, both in a series of of Instagram DMs he allegedly sent, and also by former romantic partners. (Hammer’s denying everything, for what it’s worth.) But also: It is profoundly weird (if also just bizarrely coincidental) that his two most prominent colleagues of the last few years would launch a new film about someone wanting to eat the people she’s in love with at this time.
Certainly, Hammer’s estranged wife, Elizabeth Chambers, seems to agree; as noted by Paper, Chambers reportedly commented on an Instagram post talking about the project recently with a succinct, “No. Words.”
Anyway! Bones & All is based on a 2016 novel by Camille DeAngelis; Dave Kajganich wrote the script. Chalamet’s still got Dune on the horizon, of course, and Guadagnino’s last project was the HBO TV series We Are Who We Are.
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LOL funny. I can’t wait for the CMBYN sequel, though. Cancel culture shouldn’t dismiss talent like Hammer. Cancel culture is why we’re in the political climate we’re in today and is one of the reasons we ended up with Trump. How about stop being reactionary to people’s private lives and mind your own fucking business? Because, you know, each one of us would hate to be put under a microscope, so why give two shits about people’s role play fantasies? It’s pathetic.
So how many times do we think Armie Hammer watched Julia Ducournau’s Raw (presumably with his pants off)?
He said that was his favorite movie in the leaked DMs (“allegedly!”).
Slow. Clap.That is some epic trolling from his former director and co-star.
The ironic timing of this announcement is too delicious to be coincidental, especially coming from the director & co-star of the movie Armie is most famous for!I mean, talk about life imitating art. They almost have to be capitalizing off the sensationalism of the Armie story for marketing buzz by announcing now.
You really gotta wonder if dude was supposed to have a role in this pre-Cannibalgate. It’s practically a biopic.
Or a missed opportunity for some fucked-up viral marketing.
I Chalamet not watch this.
What’s the secret of com—TIMING!
So Chalamet is going to be in a cannibal story? What, will he be the bone the cannibal picks his teeth with later?
Delicious, based on the novel ‘Eat’ by Hannibal
If this is a joke, it is in very poor taste.
Idaho is the only state in the U.S. that specifically has a law against human cannibalism. In any other state, it’s technically legal.This is Armie Hammer, signing off.
I’m glad you specified “human cannibalism”. Otherwise one might imagine the Idaho authorities arresting spiders, mantises, etc. for their acts of cannibalism.
Never been to Idaho, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
Which implies it’s been enough of a problem in Idaho that they had to pass a specific law against it.
Maybe Cannibalism was the friends we made along the way.