"Call Me by Your Name" director Luca Guadagnino is working with Timothée Chalamet on a new horror film called "Bones and All". The director and actor have shared a short teaser ahead of the film’s release, which depicts Chalamet and co-star Taylor Russell in a tender moment before the clip cuts to shots of the pair on the run in the desert.
Based on the novel of the same name by Camille DeAngelis, the coming-of-age story follows cannibal lovers Maren (Taylor Russell) and Lee (Chalamet) as they road trip across America. Michael Stuhlbarg also stars in the film adaptation along with André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon-Green, Jessica Harper, Jake Horowitz, and Mark Rylance. The screenplay is written by David Kajganich, who previously worked with Guadagnino on "Suspiria" and 2015’s "A Bigger Splash."
As Guadagnino recently told "Deadline":
"There is something about the disenfranchised people living on the margins of society that I am drawn toward and touched by. I love these characters. The heart of the movie is tender and affectionate towards them. I’m interested in their emotional journeys. I want to see where the possibilities lie for them, enmeshed within the impossibility they face. The movie is for me a meditation on who I am and how I can overcome what I feel, especially if it is something I cannot control myself. And lastly, and most importantly, when will I be able to find myself in the gaze of the other?"
"Bones and All" is produced by Guadagnino, Theresa Park, Marco Morabito, Dave Kajganich, Francesco Melzi d’Eril, Lorenzo Mieli, Gabriele Moratti, Peter Spears and Chalamet. Giovanni Corrado, Raffaella Viscardi, Marco Colombo and Moreno Zani serve as executive producers.
The film’s financiers are The Apartment Pictures (a Fremantle Company), 3 Marys Entertainment, Memo Films, Tenderstories, Elafilm, Wise Pictures, Excelsa, Serfis, and Piace. MGM secured domestic and international distribution rights, and Vision Distribution will distribute the film in Italy.
“Bones and All” debuts in theaters on Nov. 23. The 2022 Venice Film Festival runs Aug. 31-Sept. 10.