BONES AND ALL Director Luca Guadagnino to Adapt Novel QUEER Into Feature With Daniel Craig Set to Star
Oscar-nominated director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) has signed on to adapt William S. Burroughs’ novel Queer for the big screen, with Daniel Craig in the lead role. Justin Kuritzkes is writing the adaptation.
“Queer follows Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. Lee is self-conscious, insecure and driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker (1930-1998), a recently discharged American Navy serviceman from Jacksonville, FL, who befriended Burroughs in Mexico City.”
The novel is a sequel to Burroughs’ Junkie and centers on the Naked Lunch author off of heroin. Queer was published in 1985, though it was written between 1951 and 1953.
Guadagnino, who also directed Suspiria and the recently released Bones and All, is also in early development on an Audrey Hepburn biopic with Rooney Mara attached. Craig recently returned to the Knives Out franchise in the sequel Glass Onion.
via: Deadline