By “Call Me By Your Name” filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has already had success this year with “Challengers” which boasts some of the year’s best reviews and managed to pull in $79 million at the global box-office so far.
With that film having just launched on PVOD, it seems that it may not be the only Guadagnino film to arrive in 2024 with his Daniel Craig-led “Queer” hotly tipped to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
World of Reel reports that according to a producer who has seen the film, it currently clocks in at a full three hours long and has Craig pulling off a performance that will likely garner awards attention.
They also indicate that after “Challengers” was pulled from Venice last year as it wasn’t quite ready at the time, Guadagnino allegedly promised he’d bring “Queer” to Venice this year instead.
The film is based on William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel which was written in the early 1950s but not published until 1985 and is said to be based on Burroughs’ own experience.
Craig plays Lee, a self-conscious, insecure man living it up in 1940s Mexico City surviving on GI Bill benefits and part-time jobs among expat American college students.
He becomes infatuated with Allerton (Drew Starkey), a recently discharged young U.S. Navy serviceman and drug useer from Florida.
Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman and Henry Zaga co-star in the film which was shot early Summer last year in Italy and Ecuador and recently wrapped post-production.
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