Daniel Craig Will Star in Luca Guadagnino’s Adaptation of William S. Burroughs ‘Queer

The seminal 1985 ee-e-book with the aid of using beat creator William S. Burroughs is ready Lee, a self-aware and insecure guy who pursues an American Navy serviceman whilst dwelling in Mexico City

Daniel Craig is taking over a contemporary-day literary convention for his subsequent project.

The Golden Globe nominee, 54, has been connected to supermegacelebrity in Call Me with the aid of using Your Name director Luca Guadagnino`s upcoming model of the seminal 1985 novel Queer with the aid of using beat creator William S. Burroughs, in step with Deadline.

In Queer, self-aware and insecure Lee recounts his existence in Mexico City, for the duration of which he befriends and pursues Allerton (primarily based totally on Burroughs’ buddy Adelbert Lewis Marker), these days discharged American Navy serviceman from Florida.

Although written between 1951 and 1953 as a non-secular sequel to his semi-autobiographical 1953 paintings Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, the ee-e book changed unpublished till 1985, whilst Burroughs defined that it represented him off heroin. Justin Kuritzkes is writing the display model, Deadline reported.

Steve Buscemi turned into formerly set to direct any other version of the ee-e book in 2011, written via way of means of Oren Moverman, with Stanley Tucci, Ben Foster, and John Ventimiglia connected to star. Craig`s casting comes at the heels of any other scene-stealing overall performance in an LGBTQ role, after his Knives Out detective person Benoit Blanc turned into discovered to be homosexual in auteur Rian Johnson`s new Netflix sequel Glass Onion, which hits the streaming platform on Dec. 23.

After his person turned into discovered to be residing with any other man (performed via way of means of Hugh Grant), Johnson showed that Benoit is “obviously” homosexual.

Craig instructed Deadline of the revelation: “It’s all good. The much less music and dance we make approximately that, the better, really, for me, as it simply made sense.”

“And additionally, as I stated on the [BFI London Film Festival], who would not need to stay with the man or women that he occurs to stay with? It’s nice, it is fun,” Craig added. “And why should not it be? I do not need human beings to get politically hung up on anything.”

Gudagnino has additionally made a call for himself as an overtly homosexual director together with his seriously and commercially lauded 2017 version of any other queer classic, André Aciman’s 2007 novel Call Me via way of means of Your Name. The film turned into nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.