When you’ve established a longstanding relationship with an actress like Tilda Swinton, you make sure to keep it going and that’s exactly what Luca Guadagnino plans to do. According to Variety, while promoting their film I Am Love at the Venice Film Festival the duo announced their desire to make a modern version of Auntie Mame.

The 1955 novel by Patrick Dennis was adapted for Broadway in 1957 then for film in 1958. There was another cycle of Broadway and cinema reproductions resulting in the 1966 musical Mame starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur and subsequent film starring Arthur, Lucille Ball and Robert Preston in 1974. Guadagnino said his version of Auntie Mame would be a "rock-n-roll, super funny, super mainstream movie” and would tell the story of an orphaned boy growing up with his eccentric aunt in the present day. Guadagnino also added, “This is an SOS for Warner Bros. to give us the rights for this remake, which only Tilda could do justice to.”

Clearly Guadagnino and Swinton took advantage of the situation to throw the idea out there. I don’t know if I’d go as far as saying only Tilda could do the film justice, but she is certainly a great candidate. Hopefully Warner Bros. will bite and we’ll get to see a modern twist on a classic musical.