Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey share a woozy, sun-drenched romp within the first trailer for the unconventional romantic drama “Queer,” which is predicted to be an award season front-runner.
“Queer,”due out Nov. 27 and directed by Luca Guadagnino, is a unfastened adaptation of the unfinished William S. Burroughs novel of the identical identify. The movie stars Craig as Burroughs’ fictional alter ego, William Lee, who embarks on a whirlwind romance with a youthful American man, Eugene Allerton (Starkey), whereas they’re dwelling as expats in Forties Mexico Metropolis.
Collectively, the 2 males set out on a trek throughout Latin America searching for a hallucinogenic drug that’s believed to grant its customers telepathic powers. Their travels embrace some sudden encounters with a number of colourful characters, portrayed by Lesley Manville and Jason Schwartzman, amongst others.
“Queer” is Guadagnino’s second movie this yr, after “Challengers,” which starred Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor and Zendaya. The Italian director is greatest recognized to U.S. audiences for the Oscar-winning 2017 drama “Call Me by Your Name,” wherein Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer painting star-crossed lovers in Eighties Italy.
A lot of the early buzz on “Queer” has emphasised the movie’s steamy love scenes. Solely time will inform if Craig will snag his first Academy Award nomination for the film, but it surely’s already helped shake what stays of his James Bond picture.
“Scripts don’t come around like this very often, so when they do, you grab them,” the British actor instructed USA Right now after “Queer” was screened on the 2024 New York Movie Competition in October. “I didn’t know what the end result would be, but I knew the journey would be something else.”
He went on to notice: “Certainly the reason I wanted to get into cinema was because of movies like this. It’s something I was doing a lot of in my early career before I did the other thing.”
Watch the “Queer” trailer beneath.
