Two thirds of the trio of star directors who made 2017’s Call me by your name a romantic success story is supposedly coming together for a film about cannibalism – but not the two-thirds you might expect. What you mean, Deadline is reporting that Timothée Chalamet and Luca Guadagnino are potentially teaming up with actress Taylor Russell to Bones and everything, a new film about a young woman who begins to look at her roots after realizing that she has a deep compulsion to eat her romantic partners. It is another important milestone in the career of Russell, who currently stars on Netflix’s Lost in space, and who was acclaimed in 2019 for her lead role in the maturing drama of Trey Edward Shults Waves. But while we’d like to put our full focus here on Russell’s continued climb up the movie star ladder – potentially working with Suspiria director and the superprolific Chalamet – there is, uh, another topic that is hidden here. One that, for better or worse, makes discussing his two collaborators embarking on a film about romantic cannibalism a little unsettling tonight.
And, look: we tried very hard not to highlight the aspects of “supposedly eating people” the scandal that currently involves Chalamet and Armie Hammer, a former collaborator from Guadagninomainly because all allegations of “I want to eat your ribs” tend to hinder or obscure the charges of sexually abusive and manipulative behavior that have also been brought against the actor, both in a series of Instagram DMs that he allegedly sent, and also by former romantic partners. (Hammer is denying everything, for what it’s worth.) But also: it’s deep strange (although also bizarrely coincidental) that her two most prominent colleagues in recent years released a new film about someone wanting to eat the people she is in love with right now.
Certainly, Hammer’s ex-wife, Elizabeth Chambers, seems to agree; Like perceived by Paper, Chambers reportedly commented on an Instagram post talking about the project recently with a succinct, “No. Words.”
Anyway! Bones and everything is based on a 2016 novel by Camille DeAngelis; Dave Kajganich wrote the script. Chalamet still has Dune on the horizon, of course, and Guadagnino’s last project was the HBO TV series We are who we are.
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