2017's Call Me By Your Name took everyone by storm with its sweet - and super hot - romance between the studly Armie Hammer and up-and-coming twink Timothée Chalamet. In fact, so many people wanted to see more and the actors, who are true thirst buckets who can't stop teasing us with their flirtation, have both agreed to do more. However, the writer of the novel has already worked on a sequel.
Andre Aciman's sequel to Call Me By Your Name will be released in October of this year and it follows up on all of the characters including Samuel, the father. Samuel and his wife are divorced, so he goes to Rome to visit Elio who is now a professional classical pianist. Elio moves to Paris and has an affair while Oliver is a married professor in New England with sons. He decides to take a return trip to Europe and, well, we'll have to read it to find out the rest.
According to IMDB, Find Me is in the works with Luca Guadagnino, Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, and Michael Stulhbarg all already attached. Even with this, though, Armie expressed recent hesitationin an interview with Vulture in which he said, "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. 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?"
Armie also said that "Timmy" is out and said he wouldn't do it unless he was paid $15 million. WOW. Armie iterated that if the script was great and both Timmy and Luca wanted to make it, then he'd do it, but he does wonder if they shouldn't simply leave the original movie alone. He then joked he wouldn't do it for less than "uh, $10 million" which he later upped to $12.5 mil. Hey, we love Armie's sense of humor!
In the meantime, Armie is set to play Maxim de Winter in a remake of Rebecca which we think is going to be insanely sexy and Luca is busy with his upcoming series, so we doubt we'll see this sequel anytime soon. We might as well read the book!
What do you think? Should there be a sequel? Is the book better? Let us know in the comments!
