“Call Me By Your Name,” a gay love story starring Armie Hammer, has sold to Sony Pictures Classics in advance of its official premiere later this month at the Sundance Film Festival, TheWrap has learned.
The deal, estimated to be worth low- to mid-seven figures, is for worldwide rights.
Adapted from the beloved 2007 novel by Andre Aciman, the film follows a love storyย that spans 20 years after a chance meeting in 1980s Italy between a 17-year-old boy (Timothee Chalamet from “Homeland”) and aย twentysomething man (Armie Hammer).
“Call Me By Your Name”ย was directed by Italian director Luca Guadagnino (“A Bigger Splash”) from a script by James Ivory, Walter Fasano and Guadagnino.