A24 has landed the rights to Luca Guadagnino‘s highly-anticipated new movie!
On Wednesday (August 28), it was announced that the entertainment company acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the 53-year-old Italian director’s new movie Queer starring Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.
The movie was written for the screen by Luca‘s Challengers collaborator Justin Kuritzkes, which he adapted from the novel of the same name by writer William S. Burroughs.
“Queer is a labor of love, and we could not be more excited that our film has found a home with a studio as daring, vital, and trail-blazing as A24,” Luca and Daniel shared in a statement with Variety.
Keep reading to find out more about the movie…They continued, “It is our deep honor to finally bring Burroughs’ legendary novel to life on screen for the first time, and we feel immense gratitude and excitement to be able to present it alongside our treasured collaborators. We could not ask for better partners on this journey.”
Here’s the movie’s synopsis: “Set in 1950s Mexico City, Queer follows William Lee (Craig), an American expat in his late 40s, as he leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton (Starkey), a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.”
Queer will be making its world premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival on Sept. 3 and will be released in theaters later this year.
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