Sunday, 28 July 2019
Armie Hammer • Call me by your name
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Armie Hammer No Longer Sure About 'Call Me By Your Name' Sequel
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Armie Hammer has been one of the more vocal supporters of a “Call Me By Your Name” sequel, but the actor is now casting doubt on whether or not a follow-up to Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed 2017 romance will ever happen. Speaking to Vulture during the press tour for his new movie “Hotel Mumbai,” Hammer said he’s now conflicted about making a follow-up as it will be next to impossible to capture the spark of the original.
“There have been really loose conversations about it, but at the end of the day — 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,” Hammer said. “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?”
Hammer was excited by the idea of a “Call Me By Your Name” sequel as recently as last fall. In an interview with Variety at the time, Hammer said, “The only thing I want to see is I want to see it happen. I want to do it again…It was such a special time. It was such a collaborative, unique, and totally immersive filming experience that I never really had, nor since. If we get to do another one, I’ll feel really lucky.”
Both Guadagnino and co-star Timothée Chalamet have expressed interest in a sequel. The idea is for the next movie to take place years in the future and for it to be shot when Chalamet and Hammer have grown into the proper ages for their characters. Chalamet compared the idea to Richard Linklater’s “Boyhood” and said both he and Hammer were “1000% in” to make the sequel. Now it appears Hammer isn’t so sure.
“I mean, look. If we end up with an incredible script, and Timmy’s in, and Luca’s in, I’d be an asshole to say no,” Hammer told Vulture. “But at the same time, I’m like, that was such a special thing, why don’t we just leave that alone?”
“Call Me By Your Name” was nominated for four Oscars and won the prize for Best Adapted Screenplay. Whether or not the film receives a sequel, author André Aciman is at work on a book sequel to the novel on which the film is based.
Source:Indiewire
Another News on "Call me by your name"
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Armie Hammer Isn’t Sold On A ‘Call Me By Your Name’ Sequel After All
Armie Hammer doesn’t seem to share his fans’ interest in a follow-up to his gay-themed romance, “Call Me by Your Name.”
Speaking to Vulture in an interview published Tuesday, the actor seemed skeptical that he and co-star Timothée Chalamet would reprise their roles as lovers Oliver and Elio in a sequel to the 2017 film, based on André Aciman’s novel of the same name.
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Promoting his new film, “Hotel Mumbai,” Hammer acknowledged there have been “really loose conversations” about a “Call Me by Your Name” sequel, but whether one will materialize on the big screen was another story.
“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,” he said. “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.”
He added, “I don’t know that anything will match up to the first, you know?”
Hammer’s latest remarks seemed to contradict those of director Luca Guadagnino, who in January 2018 expressed interest in expanding Oliver and Elio’s love story into a “Before Sunrise”-like trilogy that would acknowledge the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s and ’90s.
Guadagnino, who also directed last year’s “Suspiria” remake, elaborated in a USA Today interview last March, promising a “different tone” and a new locale.
“They’re going to go around the world,” he said at the time.
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Despite that early buzz, Hammer said he was “not sure that it was ever really definitely going to happen” but left the door open under the right circumstances.
“If we end up with an incredible script, and Timmy’s in, and Luca’s in, I’d be an asshole to say no,” he said. “But at the same time, I’m like, ‘That was such a special thing, why don’t we just leave that alone?’”
Turns out, whether Oliver and Elio reconnect onscreen might just be a matter of finances. Though it’s unclear how serious Hammer was being in terms of numbers, he implied that both he and Chalamet would expect a salary bump before signing on for a sequel.
“Timmy said the only way he’d do it is if they paid him $15 million,” he said. “And I won’t do it for less than, uh, $10 million!” (Later in the interview, he adjusted that figure to $12.5 million, “plus 10 percent commission for my agent.”)
For now, however, fans can console themselves in knowing we’ll always have this:
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