CALL ME BY YOUR NAME Sequel: Details Revealed

According to the Hollywood Reporter Luca Guadagnino, director of the recent hit film CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, has big plans for the sequel. Guadagnino recently revealed his hopes for the franchise to continue as a series and incorporate the AIDS epidemic much like the original novel. Though the setting of the movie is earlier than that of the novel, Guadagnino hopes to continue the story through the 1980's, the height of the crisis, claiming "I think it's going to be a very relevant part of the story."

"The novel has 40 pages at the end that goes through the next 20 years of the lives of Elio and Oliver, so there is some sort of indication through the intention of author Andre Aciman that the story can continue," Guadagnino told The Hollywood Reporter. "In my opinion, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 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?"

Gaudagnino dives into the details saying "I think Elio (Chalamet) will be a cinephile, and I'd like him to be in a movie theater watching Paul Vecchiali's Once More," a 1988 film about a man who falls in love with a man after he leaves his wife, which was the first French movie to deal with AIDS." Guadagnino added, "That could be the first scene."

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME is a 2017 coming-of-age drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by James Ivory, based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. The film, set in Northern Italy in 1983, chronicles the romantic relationship between Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), a 17-year-old living in Italy, and his father's American assistant, Oliver (Armie Hammer).

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