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There is officially going to be a sequel to Call Me By Your Name

Published 13:30 22 Mar 2019 GMT

Updated 17:14 17 Oct 2019 BST

Keeley Ryan

There is officially going to be a sequel to Call Me By Your Name

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Call Me By Your Name will officially be getting a sequel.

The Oscar-nominated movie, starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hmamer, is based on the 2007 novel of the same name by André Aciman. And while there have been rumours of a film sequel, a sequel to the novel has now officially been announced. It was confirmed that Aciman was working on a sequel to the book, which will be called Find Me. It will revisit the lives of Elio and Oliver, as well as Elio's father, Samuel. Publisher Farrar, Straus, and Giroux released a statement sharing the first plot details. It said [via Variety]:

"In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. "A chance encounter on the train leads to a relationship that changes Sami’s life definitively. "Elio soon moves to Paris where he too has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a professor in northern New England with sons who are nearly grown, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return visit to Europe."

Author André Aciman told Variety how he was inspired to write the sequel after the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name. He said:

“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.”

Find Me will be hitting shelves in North America on October 29. However, readers in Ireland will have to wait a little bit longer - a release date has not yet been confirmed.

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Call Me By Your Name will officially be getting a sequel.

"In Find Me, Aciman shows us Elio’s father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome to visit Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist. "A chance encounter on the train leads to a relationship that changes Sami’s life definitively. "Elio soon moves to Paris where he too has a consequential affair, while Oliver, now a professor in northern New England with sons who are nearly grown, suddenly finds himself contemplating a return visit to Europe."

Author André Aciman told Variety how he was inspired to write the sequel after the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name. He said:

“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.”

Find Me will be hitting shelves in North America on October 29. However, readers in Ireland will have to wait a little bit longer - a release date has not yet been confirmed.