Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s latest effort “Bones And All,” has its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in a few days, where the ‘young cannibals in love’ tale is one of the most anticipated titles.
Of course, talk of the film prior to its release has also touched upon how the subject matter relates to the allegations against disgraced actor Armie Hammer who starred in Guadagnino’s celebrated gay romance tale “Call Me By Your Name”.
In a recent interview with Deadline, Guadagnino has shot down any such links between the film and the accusations of cannibalistic sexual fantasies. Guadagnino says:
“It didn’t dawn on me. I realized this afterwards when I started to be told of some of these innuendos on social media.
He says it was how strongly he responded to David Kajganich’s adapted screenplay that drew him in, and didn’t mince words regarding those making dark insinuations:
“I responded immediately to these characters who are disenfranchised and living on the edge of society. Any link with anything else exists only in the realm of social media, with which I do not engage. The relationship between this kind of digital muckraking and our wish to make this movie is non-existent, and it should be met with a shrug. I would prefer to talk about what the film has to say, rather than things that have nothing to do with it.”
“Bones And All” stars the likes of Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Michael Stuhlbarg, Chloe Sevigny, and Mark Rylance and following its premiere next week it hits theaters on November 23rd.
