We have some major news regarding that Call Me By Your Name sequel people won’t stop talking about.
No, not the Call Me By Your Name sequel that stars Timothie Chalamet and Armie Hammer reprising their roles as Elio and Oliver.
We’re talking about the other one. The Call Me By Your Name sequel written by author André Aciman.
In March, Aciman confirmed that he was finishing work on a followup to his 2007 novel. Speaking to Vulture, he said, “The film made me realize that I wanted to be back with them and watch them over the years.”
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Over the weekend, the author shared the novel’s cover with his 20K+ Twitter followers, along with the caption: “Here’s the cover of my forthcoming novel, FIND ME, where you’ll rediscover Elio and Oliver. Coming October 2019.”
Here's the cover of my forthcoming novel, FIND ME, where you'll rediscover Elio and Oliver.
Coming October 2019. pic.twitter.com/6JCREBykTk
— André Aciman (@aaciman) May 3, 2019
Find Me will hit bookstores on October 29 and is being published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. The official synopsis reads:
In this spellbinding exploration of the varieties of love, the author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your Name revisits its complex and beguiling characters two decades after their first meeting.
In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father, Samuel, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. A chance encounter on the train with a beautiful young woman upends Sami’s plans and changes his life forever.
Elio soon moves to Paris, where he, too, has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a New England college professor with a family, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return trip across the Atlantic.
Aciman is a master of sensibility, of the intimate details and the emotional nuances that are the substance of passion. Find Me brings us back inside the magic circle of one of our greatest contemporary romances to ask if, in fact, true love ever dies.
In a recent interview with EW, Aciman said the characters of Elio and Oliver have been with him ever since he wrote Call Me By Your Name and “they’ve never left.”
“I fell in love with them, fell in love with their love, and have never stopped thinking of them. Better yet, I would never have learned so much or been so stirred by young love until I woke up one morning and started writing the word, ‘Later.’”
As for the sequel coming to the big screen, it sounds like that’s pretty much a done deal.
Last fall, Chalamet told Time, “I don’t see any world where it doesn’t happen. I think André is comfortable with a sequel being made. I know Luca really wants it. And I know Armie and I are 1000% in.”
Earlier this year, Hammer said he was hesitant but not totally closed off to the idea , telling Vulture, “If we end up with an incredible script, and Timmy’s in, and Luca’s in, I’d be an asshole to say no.”
Related: Sequel to André Aciman’s ‘Call Me By Your Name’ to be released in 2019
sfhairy
Is the sequel called Pedophile Goes to Prison?
re_horst
Elio was not a minor according to Italian law. You watched it even though you knew the premise. I wonder who hurt you.
KanoChris
Do your research. A majority of the world has a lower than 18 age of consent.
Daggerman
..really, I can’t wait for the day (if it does arrive) for a tall blond handsome man to put his hands on my body!!!!
Black Pegasus
Is the sequel called
“Call me Daddy and I’ll call you Son?”
*rolls eyes*
This film is cringeworthy! And I refuse to be part of the sheep who seek to make this poorly cast film a cultural phenomenon. Armie Hammer looks like somebody’s 30 something yr old father, and Timoth’ee Chalamet looks like a 15yr old high school student. This was not by accident.
swamp bubble
there’s nothing more laughable than a gay prude
nitejonboy
Don’t that just get you hot ? Admit it !
Bryguyf69
Poorly cast? By what standard? Your distorted prudish yardstick? Sorry, I agree with the many critics who praised both Hammer and Chalamet. So go ahead and cringe. No one cares…
iamru2
I’m ok with a 17 year old having sex with a 24 year old. What I don’t like is the double standards! This film would have never seen the Light of day had the characters been straight! The real sick people are the ones who call people like me pedophiles for being ok with the age difference, to those I say F off you lousy judgmental lying c*nts!
swamp bubble
Um.. Lolita.
MarkStevens
Seriously? People have called you for being a pedo for liking CMBYN. I do tell people beforehand about the age difference in CMBYN. Of course, in my high school days, everyone was talking about “Dirty Dancing” and nobody mentioned that “Baby” was 17 and Johnny was in his mid 20s. Johnny was played by Patrick Swayze who was 34. Some of the comments on here make me feel like I have come across the msg board of the Family Research Council. I wonder if some of these posters also believe “Jack Twist” (Brokeback Mountain) was a sexual predator and the national travesty of naming a ship in the U.S. Navy after that pedophile, Harvey Milk.
Vince
This is a movie about a May/Dec romance. I’ll bet every pedo is excited about this.
galileo
The older character is supposed to be 24, I know in gay years that’s pretty old but hardly December…
swamp bubble
You should probably look up what that word means before using it. I know it’s easier to just be ignorant, but just an option.
bonbon
The original book is one of my favourite novels but I’ll be very surprised if this lives up to the expectation. I think I’ll only read it if it has very favourable reviews.
queerty02
This comment section is why we should have never legalized gay marriage.
nitejonboy
I hope this time there’s an encounter with an orange ! Or a grapefruit like in Girls Trip!
NeilIN72
So apparently the original ending that followed the characters to 2003 is just getting retconned by the author? That’s disappointing…