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Josh O’Connor To Be a part of Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Separate Rooms’

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Mar 26, 2024 / 6020 Views

Evan Walker

Whereas on the rise beforehand, director Luca Guadagnino skyrocketed into the stratosphere and onto the worldwide stage along with his homosexual romantic drama, “Name Me By Your Identify,” nominated for 4 Oscars, together with Greatest Image. The filMMAker will return to related territory along with his subsequent function movie, “Separate Rooms,” which has reunited him with British actor Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”). Based on a report from Selection, O’Connor is now in talks to take a lead position within the Italian filMMAker’s subsequent mission. “Separate Rooms” relies on an eponymous novel by the late Italian author Pier Vittorio Tondelli.

O’Connor, who co-stars in Guadagnino’s upcoming intercourse tryst/Tennis comedy “Challengers,” will play the position of an Italian author mourning the lack of his boyfriend, whose passionate romance with a shy German musician is marked by totally different types of separation.

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Right here is the logline for the unique 1989 novel through Amazon:

Leo is an Italian author in his 30s. Thomas, his German lover, is useless. On a airplane to Munich, Thomas’ hometown, Leo slips right into a reverie of their assembly and life in Paris, nights in Thomas’ flat in Montmartre, and a determined, drug-induced flight by means of the forests of northern France. Tondelli’s final e book is a robust novel in regards to the power of affection and the trauma of demise.

Guadagnino’s aforementioned subsequent movie, “Challengers,” options Zendaya as the girl on the middle of a love triangle throughout the world of Tennis, with Mike Faist and O’Connor enjoying the adjoining males. The movie’s launch was delayed final 12 months because of the Hollywood strikes, and Amazon MGM Studios will distribute it on April 26.

2024 may even see two movies from Guadagnino; “Challengers” in April after which “Queer,” his William Burroughs adaptation starring Daniel Craig. Shot final 12 months, “Queer” is alleged to be ready-ish and will premiere in the course of the fall movie comPetition circuit in late August/early September (Venice seems like guess).

Guadagnino and O’Connor additionally labored collectively on a brief movie for Aston Martin, which you’ll see beneath alongside the trailer for “Challengers.”