More details have emerged about the Call Me by Your Name sequel.

Speaking on the Oscars 2018 red carpet on Sunday, director Luca Guadagnino revealed he is working with novelist André Aciman on the film, which will see Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet return to their roles of Oliver and Elio respectively.

He also revealed the film will be set 'five to six years' after the original.

Wait. Wait. Wait. Does this mean they've been together this whole time? Or will they only return to each other's lives further down the line?

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"I'm already conceiving the story with [novelist] André Aciman, and it's gonna happen five or six years afterwards," Guadagnino told USA Today.

"It's gonna be a new movie, a different tone."

Speaking of Hammer and Chalamet's return, the director didn't reveal much but he did say the movie will have a different (and perhaps even more glamorous) backdrop than the first.

"They're gonna go around the world," he added.

preview for Call Me By Your Name trailer (August 2017)

Call Me by Your Name follows the romance between a 17-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant in 1980s Italy.

A sequel for the film was announced in January last year, with the later revelation that it will address the AIDS crisis.

Knowing it will now be set in the late '80s (the first was in 1983), this makes total sense. We just hope Elio and Oliver don't suffer any fresh heartache.

Oh, and we also hope Oscar winning screenwriter James Ivory will return for the second time around, because he didn't seem that keen on the sequel idea when asked about it last year...

From: Digital Spy