While touring with his young Bones and All cast, the Call Me By Your Name director, Luca Guadagnino brings out his Italian sophistication when painting a picture of his future in Hollywood. Even though the director has been rising swiftly as an industry insider, a dream he has harbored for a long time, Guadagnino has not yet escaped the overshadowing fame of his 2017 gay romance drama.
The globally established society that demands to witness masterpieces has been calling upon the Italian master storyteller to extend the story of Elio and Oliver and it has been 5 years since any solidity was attached to reports of the sequel’s making.
Luca Guadagnino’s Updates on Call Me By Your Name 2
During an interview with Variety, Italian director Luca Guadagnino reflects on his tenure in Hollywood, his rapid rise as an industry favorite, the unmatched potential of his films’ go-to protagonist — Timothée Chalamet, and the possibility of following up Call Me By Your Name with a much-awaited sequel. The Protagonists director had never dispelled reports of a sequel, but rather added to it by promoting the idea himself since the phenomenal success of the 2017 movie:
“I would love to make a second and third and fourth chapter of all my movies. Why? Because I truly love the actors I work with, so I want to repeat the joy of doing what we did together.”
Now, 5 years and no solid script later — “there is no hypothesis, so there is no movie” — Luca Guadagnino makes a highly controversial stance when asked about the potential arc of Call Me By Your Name 2 and its cast. “Yeah, of course” is the director’s reply to whether Armie Hammer would be present as a part of the sequel. Although the mere mention of Hammer has sparked outrage against Guadagnino, it’s only imaginable how Hollywood and its clientèle would react to the actor returning in a production that has been hyped by such popular demand.
Luca Guadagnino himself would put his sequel to the Academy Award-winning narrative at risk by attempting to employ The Social Network star who has fallen incredibly far off his golden-boy pedestal.
Call Me By Your Name: Its Success & Its Controversies
Luca Guadagnino is many things but subtlety is not one of his fortes. The filmmaker’s brash ruggedness perfectly harmonizes with his bold ambition of delivering unfailing cinematic productions, some of which are worthy of being called art. Call Me By Your Name, the 2017 adaptation of André Aciman’s novel, was awarded the Academy Award for Best Writing and that award was ensured by the poignant manifestation of Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer’s on-screen love and Luca Guadagnino’s ability to portray the melancholy behind human emotions.
However, as tragic and life-affirming as it might have been, the film and its love story do not find a space to cultivate the in-demand sequel. Primarily, the reason lies behind Luca Guadagnino’s procrastination of a potential Call Me By Your Name 2 that had been promised to the audience by the director himself ever since the release of the first and only Aciman adaptation. Adding on to the problems, the mounting allegations against Armie Hammer regarding his physically and sexually abusive behavior toward women along with allegations of cannibalism have chased the once-popular actor out of Hollywood and the States.
If Call Me By Your Name 2 exists on the horizon, it would only be natural for Elio and Oliver to feature in it. It would not be acceptable, however, to bring back Armie Hammer, and therein lies the troubling fate of the potential sequel.
Call Me By Your Name is available for streaming on Netflix and HBO Max.
Source: Variety
