Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Bones And All’ Cast Adds Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, and…David Gordon Green?
This week,Call Me By Your NamedirectorLuca Guadagninobegan production on his first movie shot in the United States. It’s calledBones and All, and it starsTimothée Chalamet(Little Women,Dune) andTaylor Russell(Waves,Lost in Space) as two lovers traveling across the country. But Guadagnino has just added a whole slew of additional actors to the cast, and while there are some terrific names among them, one name stands out as a slightly odd choice:David Gordon Green, the director of movies likePineapple Expressand 2018’sHalloween.
Deadline reports that, in addition to Green, actorsMichaelStuhlbarg(Call Me By Your Name),André Holland(The Knick),Jessica Harper(Suspiria),Chloe Sevigny(Big Love),Francesca Scorsese(We Are What We Are), andMark Rylance(Bridge of Spies) have been added to theBones and Allcast. “When I sent the script to David [Gordon Green], he said, ‘You’re mad, and I’m in,'” Guadagnino explained when asked about the unconventional casting of his fellow director. “So he’s in. I asked him to change his looks radically and he’s done that. I do like discovering, so I’m launching the acting career of David Gordon Green, the great filmmaker.” Green previously appeared on screen in one episode of the HBO comedy seriesThe Righteous Gemstones, but this sounds like it will be his biggest acting role to date.
Bones and All, which is being filmed in the Ohio Tri-State area, “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.”
The screenplay was written byDavid Kajganich, who wrote the AMC seriesThe Terrorand previously collaborated with Guadagnino onA Bigger Splashand the remake ofSuspiria. It’s based on a novel by author Camille DeAngelis.
Meanwhile, don’t hold out hope for thatmuch-discussed sequeltoCall Me By Your Name. In addition to the firestorm that has sprung up around Armie Hammer in recent months, it sounds like Guadagnino has simply moved on. “The truth of the matter is, my heart is still there, but I’m working on this movie now, and I’m hopefully going to doScarfacesoon, and I have many projects and so will focus on this side of the Atlantic and the movies I want to make,” he said.
