Call Me By Your Name is easily one of the most talked-about films of the last year. And it looks like – if director Luca Guadagnino has anything to do with it – there’ll be many more to come.
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Guadagnino spoke to The Hollywood Reporter this week about the massively successful film, and his plans to make not one, but multiple sequels.
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?
His basis for this theory? The fact that the book – ICYMI, Call Me By Your Name is based on a book of the same title – has 40 pages at the end which chronicle the next 20 years of Elio and Oliver‘s lives.
“…there is some sort of indication through the intention of author Andre Aciman that the story can continue,” he told the outlet.
He’s got plans as to what the next film would cover, too. In the novel, the events take place in 1987 at the height of the AIDS epidemic. However the film version shifts this back to 1983, when the AIDS epidemic was just starting to develop. For a sequel, Guadagnino would like to focus on the AIDS epidemic.
I think Elio [Timothee Chalamet] will be a cinephile, and I’d like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali’s Once More [the first French movie to deal with AIDS]. That could be the first scene.
Given the immense success of the film, it’d be unlikely a studio wouldn’t back a sequel – and tbh Guadagnino’s plans sound pretty solid.
