From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

I called him and I spoke to him.

I said, oh, man, I don't know.

I'm fearful about this.

I don't know if I'm the right guy.

And I went, okay, why you're fearful?

And I started to make a little bit of Hannibal Lecter to him.

I was the psychoanalyst to him.

Director Luca Guadonino desperately wanted Army Hammer to star in his new film,

Call Me By Your Name. But Hammer wasn't so sure he was the right man to play Oliver,

a closeted graduate student dealing with a powerful attraction during a summer in 1980s, Italy.

Guadonino tells us about starting as a consultant, but ending up as director of the film,

and about calling in favors to shoot the entire movie in just five weeks.

But first on the news banter, will Justice League keep up the momentum that Warner's finally found with Wonder Woman?

Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

I'm joined by my Amico in banter.

Matt Bellany.

Hello, Matt.

Ciao.

We'll do a little Italian today in honor of our guest.

So, as we're speaking, Warner Brothers has been rolling Justice League into theaters.

And this is, you know, again, Warner Brothers, these movies are freighted with expectation every time.

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