If you enjoyed the sweaty, poignant, and lust-filled world of Call Me by Your Name, this one’s for you. Another of André Aciman’s bestselling books is being adapted for the screen — and it’s just as seductive as its predecessor.
Enigma Variations will star Aaron Taylor-Johnson (28 Years Later, Nosferatu, Nocturnal Animals) as Paul, a man remade by the lovers who ignite and undo him across six transformative years. Alicia Vikander (The Danish Girl, Ex Machina, Tomb Raider) will join Taylor-Johnson in the series as Claire. It’s an intimate yet sweeping portrait of masculinity, sexuality, and modern love — and in a world of endless choices, it asks the question: will we know when we've found the one?
From studio Media Res (The Morning Show, Pachinko, and the upcoming The Miniature Wife), the limited series will be executive produced and written by Amanda Kate Shuman (The Wheel of Time, Carrie Soto Is Back), and directed by Oliver Hermanus (The History of Sound, Living). Michael Ellenberg and Lindsey Springer also executive produce for Media Res, as well as André Aciman and Monica Levinson.
Aciman’s book was hailed a “magnificent, living thing” by The New York Times Book Review’s Paul Lisicky. “Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it’s gone,” Lisicky noted. Added The Boston Globe’s Michael Upchurch, “Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that André Aciman can?”
The book, which spans Italy, New York, and New England, joins a stacked shelf of Aciman’s novels, including Find Me and Room on the Sea.
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