By Chris Evangelista/Jan. 25, 2018 5:30 am EST
Setting the sequel around the time of the fall of the Berlin wall is certainly an interesting idea, and already conjures up an entirely different atmosphere for the film compared to the original’s sun-dappled summer mood. This also implies the film will move beyond the “somewhere in Northern Italy” setting.
Later, the filmmaker revealed plans not just for one sequel, but multiple films that keep returning to these two characters:
“The texture we built together is very consistent. We created a place in which you believe in the world before them. They are young but they are growing up. If I paired the age of Elio in the film with the age of Timothée, in three years’ time Timothée will be 25 as would Elio by the time the second story was set.”
“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 [Francois] 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.”
