A24 has landed the rights to Luca Guadagnino‘s highly-anticipated new film!
On Wednesday (August 28), it was introduced that the leisure firm acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the 53-year-old Italian director’s new film Queer starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.
The film was written for the display by Luca‘s Challengers collaborator Justin Kuritzkes, which he tailored from the novel of the identical title by author William S. Burroughs.
“Queer is a labor of affection, and we couldn’t be extra excited that our movie has discovered a house with a studio as daring, very important, and trail-blazing as A24,” Luca and Daniel shared in a press release with Selection.
Maintain studying to search out out extra in regards to the film…They continued, “It’s our deep honor to lastly deliver Burroughs’ legendary novel to life on display for the primary time, and we really feel immense gratitude and pleasure to have the ability to current it alongside our treasured collaborators. We couldn’t ask for higher companions on this journey.”
Right here’s the film’s synopsis: “Set in Nineteen Fifties Mexico Metropolis, Queer follows William Lee (Craig), an American expat in his late 40s, as he leads a solitary life amidst a small American group. Nevertheless, the arrival on the town of Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a younger pupil, stirs William into lastly establishing a significant reference to somebody.”
Queer might be making its world premiere on the 2024 Venice Movie Competition on Sept. 3 and might be launched in theaters later this 12 months.
For those who missed it, a singer might be making his performing debut within the new film!