What (or Who) Is Bones and All Cooking Up?

What (or Who) Is Bones and All Cooking Up?,The trailer cast, plot, and release info for ‘Bones and All,’ Luca Guadagnino’s road movie starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell cannibals lovers is out ahead of its release at Venice Film Festival August 31 and cinemas on November 23.

What (or Who) Is Bones and All Cooking Up?

Bones and All is getting more fleshed out by the day. When the movie was first announced in January 2021, it felt like Luca Guadagnino, the Italian auteur behind Call Me by Your Name, was trolling us. It seemed as though there were far too many cannibal news stories, and by that we mean the one big one wherein CMBYN leading man Armie Hammer was accused of being a cannibal, among other allegations of misconduct and sexual assault. But Bones and All, a movie about teenage cannibals in love, is real and happening, though Guadagnino didn’t see the connection originally. “Any link [of the movie] with anything else exists only in the realm of social media, with which I do not engage,” he told Deadline when asked about the Hammer situation.

However bad the timing is for Hammer’s new career in time-shares, though, the film marches along anchored by the promise of the other Guadagnino leading man, Timothée Chalamet’s sharp cheekbones and deep-set eyes. The hunger for Bones and All continues to grow with new photos and a Venice Film Festival premiere. Then, Timothée Chalamet promoted the film with a series of weird, bones-related tweets, right before the teaser trailer dropped. The first trailer doubles down on the gore and the romance — it’s a bloody feast for the eyes stuffed with tender lust and the ineffable freedom of the open road. And murder with blunt objects. Below, all the cast, plot, and release-date information we know so far. Grab a bite of the trailer.

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What happens in the Bones and All trailer?

With all the speculation about what a “cannibal love story” would be like, the question of “What’s the vibe?” is vital. A teaser trailer dropped August 10, and so far the answer is that it’s weird. Even with the full trailer, which dropped September 29, we don’t get much plot detail, but we do get a lot of blood and longing stares.

“You don’t think I’m a bad person?” Chalamet asks. “All I think is that I love you,” Taylor Russell responds, interspersed with clips of Mark Rylance doing intense eye acting. The trailer doubles down on the idea that this is a love story full of menacing characters.

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— Timothée Chalamet (@RealChalamet) September 29, 2022

Who agreed to be in this thing?

Call Me by Your Name breakout star Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell have strapped in for the ride. Russell plays Maren, a young woman getting used to the margins of society when she first encounters Chalamet’s Lee. She is known for her transcendent performance in Trey Edward Shults’s indie melodrama Waves, which earned the actor a Gotham Award. Guadagnino is positively effusive about his two leads. “We met, and as always it was so profoundly inspiring to talk to him because he’s so clever and has such a specific point of view on things,” he says of casting Chalamet to Deadline. Of casting Russell, he says, “I asked her agent, Danie Streisand, to set up a Zoom, and we talked for a while. I might remember half an hour, maybe she’d tell you it was ten minutes. I don’t know. But it was, for me, incredibly deep, and very beautiful and intense.”

Chalamet, for his part, booked this role knowing that in the six years since he filmed CMBYN, he’s grown enough as an actor to really have a say about his character. “It excited me, because it felt like it was very different than the first project we had done together,” A24’s resident heartthrob told Variety. “It excited me, too, because I felt the bones of Lee — no pun intended — were there, but there was a lack of direction.” Guadagnino encouraged the actor to work with screenwriter David Kajganich to fine-tune his role.

Hollywood’s most glamorous up-and-coming actor (I’m talking about Russell, who’s worn Schiaparelli, Loewe, and Alexander McQueen doing promo on the carpet) said she immediately had a deep understanding of her character. “What struck me about her initially is that she’s this kind of creature who feels like there’s something off with her, like a picture frame that’s slanted,” Russell said about her character in that same interview with Variety. “And I wanted to work through that exercise of ‘If there is something inherently wrong with me, is there a way to break through that?’”

The supporting cast includes cross-generational New York “It” girl Chloë Sevigny and the chameleonic André Holland, most known for his roles in Moonlight and Passing. David Gordon-Green, Jessica Harper, Jake Horowitz, and Mark Rylance have also signed on.

Luca Guadagnino getting the magic-hour shot.Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis/MGM

When will Bones and All be released?

The movie will premiere at the Venice Film Festival out of competition before it hits select cinemas on November 18 and everywhere else on November 23, just in time for Thanksgiving. I do not recommend cooking up human parts for your Turkey Day meal to celebrate the release of the film. But do you.

This post has been updated.