Daniel Craig gets new `Queer` co-star, deets inside
`Outer Banks` fame Drew Starkey has come on board for `Queer`, which stars Daniel Craig in the lead role.
Luca Guadagnino is helming the William S. Burroughs adaptation `Queer` with Daniel Craig playing the renowned counterculture author`s alter ego, an outcast American expat who lives in Mexico. Starkey will star as a younger man with whom he becomes madly infatuated, Variety reported.
`Queer` will also topline Lesley Manville (`The Crown`), frequent Wes Anderson collaborator Jason Schwartzman; and Henry Zaga (`The New Mutants`), according to inside sources.
The boldly ambitious indie film is set to start shooting this month at Rome`s refurbished Cinecitta Studios where the Mexico City-set movie will be filmed in its entirety.
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Lorenzo Mieli`s Fremantle-owned Italian company The Apartment — the internationally expanding shingle behind Guadagnino`s `Bones and All` and Sofia Coppola`s upcoming `Priscilla` — is lead producing `Queer` in tandem with Guadagnino`s own Frenesy Film. Fremantle North America is also on board.
American playwright Justin Kuritzkes, who penned Guadagnino`s upcoming sexy comedy “Challengers” starring Zendaya, Josh O`Connor, and Mike Fast, which has now completed post – has adapted the Burroughs novel for the big screen, continuing his collaboration with the Italian director.
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`Outer Banks` fame Drew Starkey has come on board for `Queer`, which stars Daniel Craig in the lead role.
Luca Guadagnino is helming the William S. Burroughs adaptation `Queer` with Daniel Craig playing the renowned counterculture author`s alter ego, an outcast American expat who lives in Mexico. Starkey will star as a younger man with whom he becomes madly infatuated, Variety reported.
`Queer` will also topline Lesley Manville (`The Crown`), frequent Wes Anderson collaborator Jason Schwartzman; and Henry Zaga (`The New Mutants`), according to inside sources.
The boldly ambitious indie film is set to start shooting this month at Rome`s refurbished Cinecitta Studios where the Mexico City-set movie will be filmed in its entirety.
Also Read: June Temple to join Tom Hardy in Venom 3
Lorenzo Mieli`s Fremantle-owned Italian company The Apartment — the internationally expanding shingle behind Guadagnino`s `Bones and All` and Sofia Coppola`s upcoming `Priscilla` — is lead producing `Queer` in tandem with Guadagnino`s own Frenesy Film. Fremantle North America is also on board.
American playwright Justin Kuritzkes, who penned Guadagnino`s upcoming sexy comedy “Challengers” starring Zendaya, Josh O`Connor, and Mike Fast, which has now completed post – has adapted the Burroughs novel for the big screen, continuing his collaboration with the Italian director.
This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed, agencies. Mid-day accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability, trustworthiness, reliability and data of the text. Mid-day management/mid-day.com reserves the sole right to alter, delete or remove (without notice) the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever