It has been eight years since Luca Guadagnino took creator André Aciman’s queer romance Name Me By Your Title and turned it into probably the most sensual, sweltering, and admittedly heartbreaking films of the twenty first century. However when you may’ve thought a flurry of Aciman diversifications would certainly observe, extra of the Italian-American author’s work has but to materialise on display screen — till now. Per Selection‘s reporting, The Bear star Jeremy Allen White is about to star in and produce a collection based mostly on Aciman’s e-book Enigma Variations at Netflix.
First printed in 2019, Enigma Variations follows the life story of a bisexual man named Paul (White), chronicling his romantic encounters with women and men over the course of a many years spanning journey of self discovery. Introduced as a collection of vignettes that includes sure recurring characters who drift out and in of Paul’s life, Enigma Variations‘ kind is properly becoming for the restricted collection remedy, carrying flavours of each Anna Kendrick starrer Love Life and Netflix’s personal One Day in its character-focused, prismatic have a look at love and need. Serving to steer the ship alongside White on this one are The Wheel Of Time alum Amanda Kate Shuman, who’s hooked up to jot down and showrun the collection, and Residing director Oliver Hermanus, whose companies have been enlisted to get behind the digicam and name the pictures.
Presently described vaguely as merely “in improvement”, it might be a while earlier than Enigma Variations finds its option to our screens simply but. However with White at the moment knees deep in filming on Bruce Springsteen biopic Ship Me From Nowhere and set to make a Huttese look in Star Wars spin-off film The Mandalorian & Grogu subsequent 12 months, The Bear star has loads of sizzling tasks cooking — and we’re wanting ahead to devouring all of ’em. Fingers!
