Daniel Craig and Luca Guadagnino are teaming up for a new movie.
The 54-year-old Knives Out actor will be starring in the 51-year-old director’s adaption of William S. Burroughs’ novel Queer.The actor will star in Guadagnino’s adaption of William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel, Queer, according to Above the Line.
The story was a followup to Burroughs’ 1953 novel Junkie and Burroughs has said Queer represents his life off heroin. Likely, Craig will star as Lee, the protagonist of Burroughs’ story.
Queer follows Lee as he’s living in Mexico City among American ex-pat college students and bar owners. Self-conscious and insecure, Lee eventually pursues Allerton, a character based on a former Navy Serviceman Burroughs actually befriended during his time in Mexico. Burroughs originally wrote the novel between 1951 and 1953, but waited over thirty years before publishing it.
This isn’t the first time a Queer film adaption has been pursued by the Hollywood sect. In 2011, Steve Buscemi was set to direct a film based on the book with Stanley Tucci and Ben Foster attached to star. He even read part of the Oren Moverman-written script at the Sarasota Film Festival that year, but it never got off the ground, and now it’s Guadagnino and Craig’s turn.
Luca is currently in the process of raising finances for the project.
