By Ben Pearson/March 8, 2018 3:30 pm EST
When pressed whether the original cast of Hammer and Chalamet will be coming back to play Oliver and Elio, Guadagnino responded, “Of course! How can we not?” But it’s unclear whether that means that he and Aciman – who wrote the original novel on which the first film is based – are merely writing the film with those actors in mind, or if Hammer and Chalamet have literally already signed on to be a part of the sequel. They’ve all spoken very highly of their time filming together, so even if the actors aren’t signed yet, I don’t imagine it’ll be too tough to convince them to reunite and continue the story.
“I’m already conceiving the story with André Aciman, and it’s gonna happen five or six years afterwards, so almost in 1990. It’s gonna be a new movie, a different tone. You’ll see a lot of the East Coast of America – they’re going to go around the world.”
Meanwhile, Guadagnino’s next project is a remake of Dario Argento’s 1977 Italian horror film Suspiria. “It’s a movie about guilt, and it’s about motherhood,” the director told Variety about that project. “It has no primary colors in its color palette [unlike the original]. It’s the opposite of Call Me. Call Me is light, warm, and summer-ish, and Suspiria is winter-ish, evil, and really dark.”
