MGM Takes Global On Luca Guadagnino-Timothée Chalamet Feature Reteam ‘Bones And All’
deadline.comIn the wake of being acquired by Amazon, MGM has made its first bold theatrical move, picking up worldwide distribution rights to Oscar-nominated filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s first U.S.-set feature film, Bones and All.
Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Jessica Harper, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Gordon-Green, Francesca Scorsese and Chloë Sevigny star.Directed by Guadagnino and written by his longtime collaborator David Kajganich (Suspiria, A Bigger Splash), the pic is adapted from the Camille DeAngelis novel, Bones and All.
The pic reps a reteam with Guadagnino and his Call Me by Your Name actors Chalamet and Stuhlbarg.The movie is a story of first love between Maren (Russell), a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Chalamet), 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.Said Michael De Luca, MGM Film Group Chairman and Pam Abdy, MGM Film Group President, “Since his earliest days, Luca has been obsessed with movies, which makes him a kindred spirit to us both.
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