Great news for Call Me By Your Name fans! The film that has been making audiences swoon time and time again could be seeing some follow-up films that will chronicle the lives of Elio and Oliver post-the original cinematic story. The film was adapted from the novel Call Me By Your Name by author André Aciman, but opted to end the story where it did. But since the acclaim and award nominations the film is receiving, director Luca Guadagnino is seriously considering bringing taking these two characters to their original heights in the novel and finishing this story with more films. Sequel? Trilogy? The film made tons of money for such a small release!
Guadagnino spoke with The Guardian and shared some thoughts about this topic:
These characters are so fantastic, and I want to know what happens to them. The last 40 pages of the book tell you about 20 years in the life of Oliver and Elio. So I started to think about Michael Apted’s Up, and the cycle of films Truffaut devoted to the character of Antoine Doinel. And I thought, maybe it’s not a question of sequel, it’s a question of chronicling everyone in this film. I think seeing these characters growing in the bodies of these actors will be quite fantastic.
Nothing has been confirmed just yet, but since Guadagnino has mentioned even this much, it’s enough to get excited! This film is the stuff I fawned over while in film school, gut-wrenching, raw, uncomfortable at times—but beautiful. I think what really did this, though, is Timothée Chalamet’s and Armie Hammer’s performances that swept us off our feet! And those nude scenes? OMG! It’s difficult when such an important film gets a sequel or follow-up films, however—it’s dangerous territory and this could ruin the characters.
What do you think? Should Call Me By Your Name get a series of films or should it be left as the cult LGBT masterpiece that it is?
And if you haven’t seen this film—how can you even start your 2018?
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I want more, more and more…
I want more, more and more…. is a masterpiece!!! and those 2 actors are amazing! they fit together perfectly!
I’m sure I would not mind
I'm sure I would not mind seeing more of Armie and Timothee, but based on reading the book, a sequel would not work. I'm seeing the movie this weekend, and I'm interested to see how the book is adapted, and maybe I'll feel differently, but right now I would say leave it as it is.