A Call My By Your Name Sequel Novel Is Officially Being Written Could A Movie Follow

By Hoai-Tran Bui/March 21, 2019 2:30 pm EST

The sequel focuses more on just the doomed romance of Elio and Oliver, but on the Perlman family as a whole, with Elio’s father Samuel in particular, who was played in the film by Michael Stuhlbarg, getting a more prominent role — likely following up on the character’s hints at regrets that he’s harbored in the heartbreaking monologue that drove so many to tears.

Aciman said to Vulture in a statement about the sequel:

“The world of Call Me by Your Name never left me. Though I created the characters and was the author of their lives, what I never expected was that they’d end up teaching me things about intimacy and about love that I didn’t quite think I knew until I’d put them down on paper. The film made me realize that I wanted to be back with them and watch them over the years — which is why I wrote Find Me.”