The award-winning and beloved coming-of-age summer romance film Call Me By Your Name was a work of perfection, but whether we like it or not it looks like it’s getting a sequel.
We’ll be seeing Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer’s characters a few years down the track, with Oliver married and Elio even more handsome.
Director Luca Guadanino revealed in his New Yorker profile that he wants 50 Shades and Suspiria actor Dakota Johnson to play Oliver’s wife, which is triggering memories of Elio crying in front of the fire place.
Guadagnino also admitted he’s struggling with what to name the sequel.
“The only problem is the title,” He said. “It cannot be ‘Call Me by Your Name Two.’”
I’ll bet he really regrets putting that out in the world because, of course, the internet has a fair few suggestions. Most of them terrible, some upsetting, all entertaining.
To kick things off, here are a few that are actually not half bad.
Also, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME TOO works just fine. I don't know Guadagnino's on about.
— Guy Lodge (@GuyLodge) October 9, 2018
AND I'LL CALL YOU BY MINE – the second half of the quote surely!
— Chris Mandle (@chris_mandle) October 9, 2018
Then we move on to the suggestions that are really pressing down on where our heartbreak wounds have not yet healed.
Call me by your name…. but not in front of the wife
— Speccy Square Eyes (@SpeccySquareEye) October 9, 2018
Call me by your wife’s name
— Filmstress (@femmnoir3) October 9, 2018
Call Me By Your Name 2: New Phone, Who Dis?
— La Terza Madea ?️?? (@TheodoorSteen) October 9, 2018
And there’s also fair debate represented in the suggestion box about whether a movie this perfect should have a sequel.
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME 2: NO ONE WANTS THIS https://t.co/DrUrE0QYdW
— David Mack (@davidmackau) October 9, 2018
Then things have really just transpired into parody, because if you’re going to turn CMBYN into a franchise then you must accept what you’ve done.
TOTAL ME CALL
— Charlie Lyne (@charlielyne) October 9, 2018
Call me by your name 2: Call Harder
— Trizzy Gillespie (@BlackXList) October 9, 2018
I Know By What Name You Called Me Last Summer
— Kenneth D'Amica (@kdamica) October 9, 2018
Call Me By Your Names
Call Me By Your Name3
Call Me By Your Name: Resurrection
Call Me By Your Name Vs Predator https://t.co/vbGOOwbDcY— Plandy Presents… (@FormerlyMadAndy) October 9, 2018
At this point Luca Guadagnino has more than enough suggestions that his only trouble should be picking the cream of the crop.
That's My Name, Don't Wear It Out
— Josh Franks (@Josh_Franks) October 9, 2018
If the Call Me By Your Name sequel isn’t named Call Me Baby One More Time we’ve failed!
— ???????? ????? ????? ???? (@mathewrodriguez) October 9, 2018
My personal favourite however is this suggestion which quite frankly could have been an appropriate alternative to the original film title also.
Elio and the Giant Peach
— Annie Shoup (@shoupshouts) October 8, 2018
ELIO AND THE GIANT PEACH.
Please.