We, as a society obsessed with the work of Luca Guadagnino, have been put through it when it comes to his upcoming projects. First they’re announced — a Call Me By Your Name sequel, a Scarface remake, a TV adaptation of Brideshead Revisited — and then they’re either swiftly cancelled or enter production purgatory. Fear not though! In a new interview, Luca has revealed he’s nearly wrapped work on two new projects — one of them, the Zendaya-starring Challengers — and his desire to make a musical.
The forthcoming feature-length project, he revealed to Collider, was a documentary called Intimacy, about the state of exception, or the ability for sovereign and governmental powers to go beyond the law in the name of the public good.
Luca began working on it, he said, after the Bataclan massacre in Paris, and will dwell on examples of the state of exception both contemporary (Guantanamo Bay and the unlawful internment of prisoners) and more historical. “I’ve been interviewing these luminaries, these incredible thinkers,” Luca said. He’s currently in the process of finalising shooting for it.
Elsewhere in the conversation, Luca also revealed he had pipe-dream projects, including making a musical, animation or even a superhero film at some point. “I think I’d like to build more worlds in my life,” he said. “I’d like to create more worlds with my imagination and with the help of great writers and great actors that I work with constantly.”
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The way he framed it made it seem like he was interested in creating a project that gave him, and others, a childlike sense of wonder. “I’d like to make a movie that gets the young version of me – of today – to be like speed-racing heart,” he said, adding he had that feeling watching the 70s Superman movie by the late director Richard Donner, which was distinctly lighter than the movies DC make now. “I don’t know if they have room for that at DC,” he added, “but that’s what I would love to do.”
So there you have it. After heartbreaking cannibal love stories, a peach-fucking gay romance and a gory horror movie, Luca Guadagnino’s next projects may be slightly lighter fare.