For one thing, it sounds like the actors from the movie wouldn’t be old enough to play these versions of Elio, Oliver, and Samuel for some time.
Elio’s father Samuel, now divorced, on a trip from Florence to Rome [visits] Elio, who has become a gifted classical pianist.
He recently said in an interview “if we do make a second one, I think we’re setting ourselves up for disappointment.”
Aciman credited the Call Me By Your Name film with sparking the new book, saying to Vulture that “the film made me realize that I wanted to be back with them and watch them over the years.”