Director Luca Guadagnino’s subsequent movie, Bones and All, tells the story of two cannibals who set out on a highway journey throughout the USA within the Nineteen Eighties. So it’s not shocking that some have already fashioned a hyperlink between the film and Armie Hammer, who he labored with on Name Me By Your Identify.
However Guadagnino has been fast to say that the supposed tie between Bones and All and the actor wasn’t intentional. The truth is, he has been creating the script since 2020, the 12 months earlier than Hammer’s allegations got here to mild. Hammer has come beneath excessive scrutiny and Hollywood backlash stemming from alleged situations of bodily abuse, rape and, yeah why not?, cannibalism.
In an interview with Deadline, Luca Guadagnino said: “Any hyperlink with anything exists solely within the realm of social media, with which I don’t have interaction. The connection between this sort of digital muckraking and our want to make this film is non-existent and it must be met with a shrug. I would favor to speak about what the movie has to say, somewhat than issues that don’t have anything to do with it.”
Luca Guadagnino additionally famous that moviegoers shouldn’t anticipate “shock worth” with Bones and All, which the director states he despises and doesn’t need to use as a “software for horror”. He additionally tried to tell apart Bones and All from horror films as an entire, likening it to a level to The Texas Chainsaw Bloodbath and The Exorcist–neither of which he considers horror however somewhat “a devastating portrait of America” and “a household drama”, respectively.
You may undoubtedly anticipate to catch shock worth within the upcoming documentary Home of Hammer, concerning the Hammer household’s legacy and downfall.
Bones and All stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet, who earned an Oscar nomination for Name Me By Your Identify. Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All will premiere on the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant subsequent month earlier than it hits theaters this fall.
