In the book, Maren is on a quest to find her long lost dad after her mom deserts her, but in the movie it’s her mother who she is searching for after being abandoned by her father (played by André Holland). Some of the depth came from small changes like swapping the genders of Maren’s parents. “I wish that I could go back in time and novelize the script and put Dave’s name on the book along with mine.”

“I say this all the time,” she told the crowd. Speaking at the Refocus Film Festival in October, DeAngelis said she was “delighted by the changes that Dave and Luca and the rest of the team made” to her story and that having some creative distance from the work allowed her to find a new joy in it. Kajganich “has added so much depth and dimension and the result is a lot richer than what I originally conceived of a decade ago,” she said in a series of videos about the adaptation process on YouTube last year. (That title, she said, goes to either 2010’s Petty Magic or 2018’s The Boy From Tomorrow).ĭeAngelis saw the screenplay as a “new work that is interacting with and responding to the work of another writer” who had already moved on from the project. Luckily, she was more than happy to let Kajganich put his stamp on a book that she has admitted is not one of her favorites. Screenwriter David Kajganich wanted to remain faithful to the soul of DeAngelis’ horror-romance, while also pushing the nearly decade-old story forward. How does Bones and All compare to the book? “It’s a dark fable-it’s a fable about overcoming your limits and your nature, and finding love.” “I think it’s a romantic film-it’s a romance,” he told The A.V. (Fun fact: DeAngelis is a vegan and had newly become one when she started writing the book.) But Guadagnino sees something beautiful in the horrors portrayed in the road trip movie. The film, written by David Kajganich, who previously worked with Guadagnino on Suspiria and A Bigger Splash, doesn’t shy away from the blood and guts that comes with Maren and Lee’s insatiable need for human bones and all. The bloody romance, set in Reagan-era America, stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as Maren and Lee, two misfits whose taste for flesh brings them together, but may also be what ultimately tears them apart. 23, is based on Camille DeAngelis’ 2015 coming of age novel of the same name. Director Luca Guadagnino’s latest film, in theaters Nov. Bones and All is a tender love story between two cannibals that will rip your heart out.

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