Call Me by Your Name Sequel: Everything We Know So Far

Call Me by Your Name, based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by André Aciman, won critics over with its delicate portrayal of a 17-year-old falling in love with an older man in northern Italy. The film was lauded for its beautiful performances from its stars Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer, launching Chalamet into superstardom. CMBYN was eventually nominated for four Oscars, ultimately winning best adapted screenplay.

Now the O.G. film’s director Luca Guadagnino has reportedly begun working on the Call Me by Your Name sequel, according to Variety. Even better, in the newly surfaced interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica from March, Guadagnino confirmed that Chalamet and Hammer will be revisiting their roles as Elio and Oliver for the new project. Here’s everything we know about the movie so far.

The cast: Guadagnino has indicated his lead actors are definitely going to be a part of any follow-up project, as will the rest of the original cast. “Of course, it was a great pleasure to work with Timothée Chalamet, Armie Hammer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Esther Garrel, and the other actors. Everyone will be in the new movie,” he reportedly said in the interview with La Repubblica.

The plot: We don’t know a lot about the full story yet, but FYI, Call Me by Your Name ended (spoiler alert) with Oliver making a heartbreaking call to Elio and telling him he’s engaged to be married to a woman.

There is a second novel, Find Me, which takes place 10 years after the novel. However, before the novel came out, Hammer had told IndieWire that Guadagnino had already pitched a sequel script to him. “Dude, he broke down the whole script for us,” Hammer said back in 2018. “I mean, it’s not a finished script, but he’s got all the ideas for it. Luca’s all gung ho about it, and by the way, if Luca’s doing it, I think we’re all gung ho about it.”

The release date: No one knows quite yet when the sequel might arrive—not even Guadagnino, who said that production has been put on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic. “Before coronavirus, I made a trip to the United States to meet a screenwriter I love very much, whose name I don’t want to say, to talk about the second part. Unfortunately, we had to put it on hold,” he said.

Honestly, we’ll wait however long we have to for this one. We’ve missed Elio and Oliver so much!

Originally Appeared on Glamour