Armie Hammer Isn't Sure He Really Wants A Call Me By Your Name Sequel

Just because we all really want a Call Me By Your Name sequel doesn't mean we're gonna get it.


Director Luca Guadagnino has been talking about making a follow-up to his 2017 movie starring Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, plus a peach, allocating hints here and there about a story that takes place a number of years immediately following the opening film's story. However it seems like there really are still several missing pieces to the puzzle.


Namely, Hammer himself, who recently expressed doubts that a sequel could be the ideal thing for all of us. His comments came while in a chat with Vulture while promoting is new film, Hotel Mumbai.


"I'm group kind of coming around to the idea that the initial one was so special for each person who made it, and thus several people who watched it felt like it really touched them, or discussed to them. And it also felt like a really brilliant storm of so several things, that if we do make a second one, I think we’re setting ourselves up for disappointment," he mentioned. "I don’t know that anything will match up to the opening, you know?"


In case it wasn't fully clear that he's feeling very conflicted by the thought of continuing Elio and Oliver's story, Hammer added that if the script is good and Chalamet and Guadagnino are both on board, "I’d be an asshole to mention no... Nevertheless at the same time, I’m like, that was such a special thing, why don’t we just leave it alone?"


And in one final blow, Hammer — nevertheless he mentioned earlier in the conversation that there have been "really loose conversations" — admitted he hasn't been a piece of any uncensored talks surrounding a second film. "I’m not sure that it was ever really certainly going to happen. People just seemed so excited about it that we were like, 'Oh, yeah, fuck it! We’ll do it, sure!'"


It sounds like all along, we were just attempting to will something into existence that wasn't really there. Because the actor himself noted, "It’s not real up until it is."


Without consideration of whether a movie happens, the literary sequel to Call Me By Your Name — Find Me by André Aciman — will be hitting bookshelves this October.