Daniel Craig is going ‘Queer’ in Luca Guadagnino’s next movie & here’s everything we know (so far)
Challengers, director Luca Guadagnino is ready to serve his next cinematic ace: An adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel Queer.The man behind Call Me By Your Name directing a movie with that title?
Oh, we are immediately on board!But there are plenty of other reasons to be excited for Queer, which—according to recent reports—could be arriving to theaters sooner than you might think!
With that in mind, let’s take stock of everything we know about the highly anticipated film so far…Subscribe to our newsletter for your front-row seat to all things entertainment with a sprinkle of everything else queer.Written by influential Beat Generation author William S.
Burroughs (Naked Lunch), Queer is a short novel—or, novella—about a man named Lee who is fighting addiction while living in Mexico City among a number of young, broke American ex-pats in the 1940s.Self-conscious and insecure, Lee finds himself courting a recently discharged American Navy serviceman many years his junior, while also on the hunt for a transcendental drug known as Yage.Though it was originally written in the early 1950s, Queer wouldn’t be released for a few decades, likely due in part to the “heavy homosexual content” that would’ve been deemed obscene at the time.
