By A24 has premiered the first trailer for Luca Guadagnino’s next film “Queer” starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.
Following reviews out of the film’s Fall festival run, Craig’s performance is said to be 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.
Guadagnino has previously dubbed it a tribute to filmmakers Powell and Pressburger who made a series of highly influential films in the 1940s and 1950s like “The Red Shoes” and “Black Narcissus”.
Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, Andra Ursuta, Michael Borremans and David Lowery co-star.
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