A sequel to Call Me By Your Name was first rumored shortly after its 2017 debut and star Armie Hammer aimed to clarify what the hold-up was Wednesday.
Hammer, 32, set the record straight during his The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon appearance. After host Jimmy Fallon asked whether progress was being made on a Call Me By Your Name follow up, the Hotel Mumbai actor seemed conflicted about the idea as he replied: "Who knows?"
"There have been really loose conversations about it, but at the end of the day—I'm sort of coming around to the idea that the first one was so special for everyone who made it, and so many people who watched it felt like it really touched them, or spoke to them," Hammer told Fallon. "And it felt like a really perfect storm of so many things, that if we do make a second one, I think we're setting ourselves up for disappointment. I don't know that anything will match up to the first, you know?"
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Call Me By Your Name is a coming-of-age drama that follows 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) as he spends his summer living at his family's villa in Lombardy, Italy. Elio soon meets Oliver (Hammer), a 24-year-old man interning for his father. The two soon form a romantic attraction. The Oscar-winning feature is based on author André Aciman's 2007 novel of the same name.
An untitled Call Me By Your Name sequel is listed on the Internet Movie Database's (IMDb) website, but no plot details accompany the post. Despite this, Aciman and his publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) are moving forward with a sequel book, called Find Me.
"In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio's father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist," plot details from FSG read, according to IndieWire's Thursday report. "A chance encounter on the train leads to a relationship that changes Sami's life definitively. Elio soon moves to Paris where he too has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a professor in northern New England with sons who are nearly grown, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return visit to Europe."
Aciman first unveiled his plans to develop a follow-up novel in December 2018. He tweeted about how he'd "love" to write a sequel and that he was currently working on wrapping it. It slated to debut October 29.
Guadagnino told Vulture in November 2017 that he'd be interested in making "five" Call Me By Your Name movies. "It sprung out of my love for these characters and my desire to visit them again, and in doing so, to be with the same people I did this movie with," he said.
"Maybe in the sequel, Elio and Oliver only meet after two hours of the movie. I want to follow them, Mr. Perlman, Marzia, all these people. Maybe the movie opens with how Mafalda the maid is living in the house, all alone," he continued. "I definitely would buy myself the freedom of a movie that is not bound to a textbook of rules."
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