Timothée Chalamet may reteam with Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino on his new horror romance. Released in 2017, Call Me by Your Name starred Chalamet and Armie Hammer as a teenager and a grad student who sparked a romance in 1980s Italy. The film became a surprise hit and a huge awards contender, garnering heaps of praise for Chalamet's precocious performance and Guadagnino's sensitive direction. Though it only won one Oscar for James Ivory's screenplay, the coming-of-age drama remains in high esteem as a mainstream breakthrough for LGBT-themed films, so much that serious talks of a sequel have been happening over the last few years. While sequel plans are still up in the air, Chalamet and Guadagnino are rumored to be reuniting on a vastly different project.
According to Deadline, Chalamet is eyeing a starring role in Bones & All, a horror love story that Guadagnino is set to direct. Details are scant, but the film adapts Camille DeAngelis's book centered on a young woman who compulsively kills and eats the people she loves. Taylor Russell, who starred in the acclaimed 2019 drama Waves and psychological horror film Escape Room, is apparently in talks for the female lead. The script was written by Dave Kajganich, a prolific horror screenwriter who previously worked with Guadagnino on his polarizing 2018 feature Suspiria.
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With starring roles in Denis Villeneuve's highly anticipated Dune adaptation and Wes Anderson's upcoming The French Dispatch, Chalamet remains one of Hollywood's most sought-after actors. He's consistently received acclaim for his work in both blockbuster fare and auteur-driven indies, particularly generating praise under Greta Gerwig's direction in both Lady Bird and Little Women. If his repeat collaboration with Gerwig is any indication, a repeat with Guadagnino in Bones & All might prove similarly fruitful on the awards front.
Source: Deadline