Timothée Chalamet's newest upcoming movie, Bones & All, seems to be bringing a wild and unexpected twist to the typical coming-of-age narrative. Chalamet is no stranger to coming-of-age stories, finding his breakthrough in 2017 with Luca Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name as well as being featured in films such as Hot Summer Nights and Lady Bird. Now, Chalamet and Guadagnino are partnered again for a coming-of-age film with a difference.
Bones & All is adapted from Camille DeAngelis' 2015 novel of the same name which details a budding relationship between two teenagers living on the margins of society. Heavy themes of loneliness, feminism, and self-loathing displayed in the novel lend themselves perfectly to the coming-of-age stories that audiences will be familiar with. Chalamet will star alongside Lost in Space alum Taylor Russell, with a strong supporting cast featuring Mark Rylance, Michael Stuhlbard, André Holland, and Chloë Sevigny. Chalamet and Russell are featured in a short teaser trailer for Bones & All, released on August 10, 2022, that reveals more information about the strange twist that will make this project stand out from the crowd.
In a departure from the typical narrative of coming-of-age films, Bones & All will star Chalamet and Russell as two teenage cannibals. The synopsis for the film suggests it will investigate the "first love between a young woman... and [a] disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey... [but] all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts." The teaser trailer shows the pair falling in love while an eerie soundtrack plays in the background along with the sounds of people screaming for help, seemingly splicing together the normally disparate genres of coming-of-age drama and horror. All this establishes Bones & All as one of the wildest and most unconventional projects in Chalamet's career to date.
What Timothée Chalamet's Role Is In Bones & All
Dune actor Timothée Chalamet has been attached to Bones & All from the beginning thanks to his previous collaboration with Guadagnino, with the young actor being billed to portray a character known as Lee, referred to as "an intense and disenfranchised drifter." DeAngelis' novel is told primarily from the perspective of Maren Yearly, who'll be played by Russell in the film, who begins a journey to find the father she has never known. She meets many characters along the way, but Lee features heavily as the pair find themselves falling in love and bonding over their shared affliction while on their cross-country road-trip.
Despite the horrific undertones of the entire story, the teaser trailer for Bones & All seems to be painting the film with the same tenderness and grounded nature that goes hand-in-hand with coming-of-age stories like Chalamet's previous project, Call Me By Your Name. One particular exchange shows Lee posing Maren the question, "you don't think I'm a bad person?" only for Maren to reply, "all I think is that I love you." Chalamet and Russell certainly have strong chemistry in the trailer, even though the soundtrack and screams in the background suggest a deep theme of horror throughout the narrative.
Few details are known about the actual story that will be told in Bones & All, although the teaser trailer does point to the events of the film being a direct adaptation of the events in the novel. The film is set to be released on November 23, 2022, following its premiere at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in September 2022. The new teaser trailer certainly heightens anticipation, and with Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, and Luca Guadagnino at the helm, Bones & All will surely be a stand-out film of the year.