Timothée Chalamet in "Bones and All" cannibal love story

After the great success of Call Me By Your Name, Timothée Chalamet returns to work with Luca Guadagnino in Bones and All. The movie has been scripted by David Kajganich (already behind Suspiria and A Bigger Splash) on an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Camille DeAngelis and is expected to be an atypical road movie in which the protagonists are a pair of cannibal lovers, played by Chalamet and Taylor Russell, who travel through the streets of the United States in the 1980s. 

"Bones and All is a story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey which takes them through the back roads, hidden passages, and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand which will determine whether their love can survive their otherness."

Alongside the Dune star and Russell, a Canadian actress best known for her TV series Lost in Space, the cast also includes Chloë Sevigny, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese and Oscar winner Mark Rylance, who, speaking to British GQ,  revealed a few more details about Guadagnino's new project: 

"It's a really curious genre. It's a road movie, but it's also like a Bonnie and Clyde romance. And they happen to be eating people. So it's got a very thoughtful aspect to it about things that we inherit from our parents. A little bit like Call Me By Your Name, in terms of discovering you are gay, something you didn't know about yourself. How do you deal with that? Thankfully, in the West it's easier now than, say, if you discovered that in Afghanistan or somewhere where it would be a death sentence."

While the Sicilian director during an interview for Fantastic Man described it as a super romantic love story:

"I like to think that Bones and All is an extremely romantic movie, addressing the romanticism that lies within us and within relationships in general. Of course, there’s the literal aspect of it being a movie about cannibal lovers, which is extreme in many ways, but I think the more extreme aspect of the movie is the intensity of the feel­ings that these people go through the impossibility of love."

In the first images to appear online, the two leads can be seen immersed in the vast spaces of the Tri-State region of Ohio, where the film is set to be shot in the spring of 2021, and Timmy in an unseen redheaded version. Choosing Chalamet to play Lee was a natural choice for Guadagnino, who felt he was the perfect fit for the role of the feisty drifter, not only because of their friendship, but because of the young star's multifaceted talent:

"I’d been handed this beautiful script by David Kajganich, and while I was reading it, I felt like I knew how to make this movie. At the same time, the second I read it, I said, I think only Timothee can play this role. It was serendipity because he was in Rome and I was in Rome and we met after this year of Covid constriction, and we could meet and spend time together. He’s fantastic, a great performer and to see him soaring the way he is doing now, I feel proud of him. And this character is something very new for him, both endearing and heartbreaking."

The filming of Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino's first film to be shot entirely in America, has already been completed several months ago and the director is currently working in Boston on the set of Challengers, a "triangular love story set in the world of tennis" starring Zendaya, Josh O'Connor and Mike Faist. Although it doesn't yet have an official release date, rumor has it that Bones and All may premiere during the upcoming Venice Film Festival. Are you curious to see the cult couple from Call Me By Your Name reunited?