News has broken today that offers something to look forward to post-isolation: Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer will reprise their roles as Elio and Oliver in Find Me, the much-anticipated sequel to Call Me By Your Name, director Luca Guadagnino has confirmed. André Aciman’s follow-up novel was released in October of last year, and finds Elio, Oliver and Sami, Elio’s father, ten years after the close of Call Me By Your Name.
“Of course, it’s a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg (who plays Elio’s father, Samuel), Esther Garrel (Elio’s love interest, Marzia), and the other actors – they will all be in the new film,” Guadagnino told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
The 2017 film was a breakout role for Chalamet – whose role in 4000 Miles at London’s Old Vic theatre was recently postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic – and was lauded for its bittersweet depiction of first love and desire over the course of a summer in Northern Italy. No production or release dates have been confirmed for the sequel as of yet – until more news, Call Me By Your Name is on Netflix, and Aciman’s novel Find Me is out now.
