The film adapts William S Burroughs\u2019s classic 1985 novel of the same name and will star former James Bond<\/a> star Craig as an outcast American expat named Lee who flees a drug bust in New Orleans and arrives in Mexico.<\/p>\n Once there, Lee becomes obsessed with a discharged American Navy serviceman and drug user named Allerton, played by Drew Starkey.<\/p>\n The film will also star the likes of Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman and Henry Zaga. Queer will mark the second time that Kuritzkes has collaborated with Guadagino, after working together on the new Zendaya film Challengers<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Speaking to RadioTimes.com<\/a> ahead of the release of Challengers, Kuritzkes\u00a0discussed his next project with director Guadagnino.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cLuca gave me the book for Queer while we were on set for Challengers and said \u2018read this tonight and tell me if you want to write it\u2019, and I read it that night, and I told him I wanna write it and I was really honoured that he asked me,\u201d revealed Kuritzkes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n However, this film proved a new experience for the screenwriter as this was his first time adapting the works of another writer, rather than working from his own story.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n When comparing the art of adaptation to crafting his own story from scratch, Kuritzkes noted: \u201cYeah, really different process, especially with that book, which is a legendary book by a legendary author, but, uh, not a conventional one. Not conventional. It\u2019s not a made-for-the-movies book.\u201d<\/span><\/p> However, he added: \u201cI can\u2019t wait for people to see that movie. I think it\u2019s, you know, I really saw working on that as a sort of, I felt like I was a medium between these two brilliant artists \u2013 Luca on the one hand and William S Burroughs on the other \u2013 and it was my job, really, to bring them together.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Queer is expected to premiere in film festivals later this year, so fans won\u2019t have too long to wait to see the ambitious film.<\/p>\n Thankfully, Guadagnino and Kuritzkes\u2019s\u00a0first work together is out much sooner.<\/p>\n Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n Challengers will arrive in UK cinemas on Friday 26th April 2024.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Film<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on.\u00a0For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0The Radio Times Podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n The former James Bond star has an exciting new role coming up. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":50241,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-scaled.jpg",2560,1738,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-300x204.jpg",300,204,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-768x521.jpg",768,521,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-1024x695.jpg",800,543,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-1536x1043.jpg",1536,1043,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/04\/daniel-craig-movie-queer-teased-by-writer-its-not-a-made-for-the-movies-book-2048x1390.jpg",2048,1390,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The former James Bond star has an exciting new role coming up.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/50240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Writer](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2024\/04\/GettyImages-2148911062-d9a5f4e.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C418\" "\\"Los")
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