Bones & All: Taylor Russell, Timothee Chalamet star in Luca Guadagnino film

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Suspiria remake (watch it HERE) director Luca Guadagnino is reteaming with that film's screenwriter David Kajganich on a new horror project based on the novel Bones & All by Camille DeAngelis (pick up a copy at THIS LINK).

Timothée Chalamet, who earned an Oscar nomination for his work in Guadagnino's Call Me By Your Name, and Taylor Russell of Escape Room are in talks to take the lead roles in the film, which Guadagnino is hoping to get into production in April or May.

Described as a "coming-of-age horror story" and a "horror love story", Bones & All follows 

Maren Yearly on a cross-country trip as she searches for the father she's never met in an attempt to understand why she has the urge to kill and eat the people that love her.

Which sounds like a good set-up for a horror movie to me. Here's the description from the book: 

Maren Yearly is a young woman who wants the same things we all do. She wants to be someone people admire and respect. She wants to be loved. But her secret, shameful needs have forced her into exile. She hates herself for the bad thing she does, for what it's done to her family and her sense of identity; for how it dictates her place in the world and how people see her–how they judge her. She didn't choose to be this way.

Because Maren Yearly doesn't just break hearts, she devours them. Ever since her mother found Penny Wilson's eardrum in her mouth when Maren was just two years old, she knew life would never be normal for either of them. Love may come in many shapes and sizes, but for Maren, it always ends the same-with her hiding the evidence and her mother packing up the car.

But when her mother abandons her the day after her sixteenth birthday, Maren goes looking for the father she has never known, and finds much more than she bargained for along the way.

Faced with a world of fellow eaters, potential enemies, and the prospect of love, Maren realizes she isn't only looking for her father, she's looking for herself.

Camille DeAngelis' Bones & All is an astonishingly original coming-of-age tale that is at once a gorgeously written horror story as well as a mesmerizing meditation on female power and sexuality.

Bones & All doesn't have a distribution deal yet, but a project from this creative team with these stars attached shouldn't have trouble finding a home.