Call Me By Your Hammer

Sometimes a story will slip through the cracks that's of such monumental importance that it shakes me to my very foundation - it makes me wonder if I am doing my job here, or if I am merely beating off in the breeze. And today, sadly, has become one of them days for soul-searchings, because how I managed to miss this... this... it's just too much to bear.

"A few days ago in Crema, Italy Luca Guadagnino began filming Call Me By Your Name, a new film based on the best-seller by André Aciman. Guadagnino, James Ivory (A Room With A View), and Walter Fasano (I Am Love) have written the screenplay, and Guadagnino has assembled an international cast: Armie Hammer (The Lone Ranger), Timothée Chalamet and Michael Stuhlbarg....

... In two weeks, [Guadagnino] will start filming ... “Call Me By Your Name,” in which a 17-year-old boy has a romance with his father’s male house guest, who is to be played by Armie Hammer. Mr. Guadagnino promised plenty of nudity in that film too. “And it will be shot in CinemaScope,” he joked. "

Well if nothing else I guess I can ameliorate my existential crises a bit with the fact that this news hasn't been reported officially yet - these details have been scattered here and there and the trades have not announced the project yet. But it is really happening -- pictures from the set are around:

Not sure who the actress is(the IMDb page is still slim pickings) but the teenage-looking one is the actor Timothée Chalamet (he's actually 21) - you might know him as the son in Interstellar or Dana Brody's boyfriend on Homeland - and the older dude is of course the great great Michael Stuhlbarg. I'm guessing they play his parents.

There aren't any pictures of Armie on the set that I can find, but he has been in Crema, Italy for a couple of weeks via his (and his wife's) Instagram, so our stalking pays dividends. This is happening, people!

I haven't read Aciman's book (although I have already bought a copy before even finishing this post) - have any of you? - but it's from 2007 and the New York Times review no less begins with the line, "This novel is hot." So I have expectations! Especially with Guadagnino, who just delivered unto the world the sex-bomb that is A Bigger Splash, promising us "plenty of nudity." With this and Tom Ford's new movie, I feel as if Armie Hammer could be moving into an important pandering-to-gays phase of his career. We're here for you, Armie.