The film is reportedly written by Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King) and will tell “a multiyear story, set in the seventies, that [LaGravenese] and Guadagnino had invented, drawing on the album’s central themes.” LaGravenese tells the New Yorker about the characters: “When they’re repressing, we dramatize the repression, and what that does to them. And we dramatise what happens when you let your passions take over too much.”