who was call me by your name dedicated to
Call Me by Your Name (film) In 2016, Ivory stepped down from directing to avoid conflicts, leaving Guadagnino to direct the film alone.[15][12] According to Ivory, financiers from Memento Films International did not want to have two directors involved in the project, as they "thought it would be awkward ... It might take longer, it would look terrible if we got in fights on the set, and so on."[7][16] Guadagnino has said that Ivory's version would have likely been "a much more costly [and] different film"—one which, in fact, could not have been made, because of "market realities".[13][14] Ivory became the solely credited screenwriter,[23] and subsequently sold the rights to the screenplay to Guadagnino's company.[7][16] It marks Ivory's first produced screenplay since Le Divorce (2003), and the only narrative feature that he has only written, not directed.[23] Despite that, Ivory was "very much involved" with other aspects of the production.[23] Guadagnino chose to dedicate the film to Bill Paxton—a friend of the director, Spears and his husband, Brian Swardstrom—after his death in February 2017.[24]