By A24 has reportedly landed the U.S. rights to Luca Guadagnino’s next film “Queer” starring Daniel Craig, the deal coming ahead of the film’s premiere at the Venice Film Festival followed by Toronto and New York fest screenings.
Deadline broke the news, saying the film began screening to distributors in late June and whilst others pursued it, A24 just closed the deal with a theatrical release guaranteed.
They add that early word is that Craig’s performance is a career best, but the film itself is ‘polarizing’. With a $53 million budget, it will be one of the more expensive films A24 has released to date.
The “Challengers” and “Call Me By Your Name” director’s work is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel. Craig plays Lee – a self-conscious, insecure man living it up in 1950s Mexico City surviving on GI Bill benefits and part-time jobs among expat American college students.
He becomes infatuated with Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), a recently discharged young U.S. Navy serviceman and drug user from Florida newly arrived in town. Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, Andra Ursuta, Michael Borremans and David Lowery co-star.
Source: Deadline
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