Forward of its world premiere tomorrow on the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Competition, a brand new Queer photograph from Luca Guadagnino‘s latest romance drama has been revealed. This marks Guadagnino’s first homosexual interval drama film in an extended whereas, after almost a decade since discovering important success with 2017’s Name Me by Your Identify.
“Set in Nineteen Forties Mexico Metropolis, it follows Lee who has fled from a drug bust in New Orleans. In Mexico Metropolis, Lee wanders across the metropolis’s golf equipment and turns into infatuated with drug consumer Allerton, a discharged American Navy serviceman,” reads the synopsis.
Who’s within the new Queer photograph?
The brand new official nonetheless supplies the viewers with a more in-depth have a look at lead stars Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey, whose characters will be seen speaking with one another at a bar. In the intervening time, the movie at present has no theatrical launch date but, however A24 is predicted to deal with its North American distribution.
Queer is directed and produced by Guadagnino from a screenplay written by Challengers scribe Justin Kuritzkes, based mostly on William S. Burroughs’ 1985 novel of the identical title. Becoming a member of Craig and Starkey are Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Henry Zaga, Drew Droege, Ariel Schulman, Colin Bates, Omar Apollo, Ronia Ava, and extra.
In addition to Queer, Guadagnino can be at present engaged on one other star-studded mission which is is thriller film titled, After the Hunt. It will likely be led by Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garlfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloe Sevigny. In the meantime, Craig may even subsequent be seen in Netflix’s Wake Up Lifeless Man: A Knives Out Thriller, the place he’ll be reprising his function as detective Benoit Blanc.
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