Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman confirms he's working on a sequel

Call Me By Your Name author André Aciman has revealed that he is currently penning the sequel to his 2007 bestselling novel. The news comes two months after Armie Hammer , the actor who played Oliver in Luca Guadagnino’s screen adaptation, confirmed that a sequel to the film was in the works, in a Variety interview .

Aciman took to Twitter to confirm the news, to which Armie Hammer responded with ‘BOOOM’

BOOOM!

— Armie Hammer (@armiehammer) December 4, 2018

In November, screenwriter James Ivory, who wrote the screenplay for the film adaption told The Film Stage that Aciman had laughed at the idea of a sequel. “He said it was not a good idea,” he told the publication.

Call Me By Your Name, the final installment in director Luca Guadagnino’s thematic “Desire” trilogy, after I Am Love (2009) and A Bigger Splash (2015), chronicles the romantic liaisons of 17-year-old Elio and his professor father’s 24-year-old graduate-student assistant Oliver. The coming-of-age romantic tale was adapted by Guadagnino and Ivory, which saw Timothée Chalamet playing the role of young Elio, alongside Hammer.

It received four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, and won the Oscar for ‘best adapted screenplay’ category.