Daniel Craig will star in director Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of 1985 novel 'Queer'

According to Deadline, Daniel Craig, 54, has been cast in Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino's planned adaptation of beat writer William S. Burroughs' famous 1985 novel Queer. In Queer, self-conscious and insecure Lee describes his life in Mexico City, where he meets and pursues Allerton (based on Burroughs' friend Adelbert Lewis Marker), a newly discharged American Navy serviceman from Florida. Furthermore, although it was written between 1951 and 1953 as a spiritual successor to his semi-autobiographical 1953 work Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, Queer was not released until 1985, when Burroughs revealed that it reflected his withdrawal from heroin. According to Deadline, Justin Kuritzkes is writing the screen adaptation. Previously, Steve Buscemi was planning to direct another adaptation of the book, written by Oren Moverman, in 2011, with Stanley Tucci, Ben Foster, and John Ventimiglia attached to star. Also Read: Tom Cruise told Emily Blunt to “stop being such a p—y” on a movie set Moreover, Craig's casting follows another scene-stealing performance in an LGBTQ role, as his Knives Out detective character Benoit Blanc was revealed to be homosexual in auteur Rian Johnson's new Netflix sequel Glass Onion, which will be available on the streaming platform on December 23. Johnson confirmed that Benoit is "obviously" gay after his character was found to be living with another man (played by Hugh Grant). [caption id="attachment_71061" align="aligncenter" width="1300"] Daniel Craig[/caption]

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Daniel Craig revealed the following to Deadline: "It's all good. The less of a song and dance we make about that, the better, really, for me, because it just made sense." "And also, as I said at the [BFI London Film Festival], who wouldn't want to live with the human being that he happens to live with? It's nice, it's fun," Craig continued. "And why shouldn't it be? I don't want people to get politically hung up on anything." On another note, Luca Gudagnino established himself as an openly homosexual director in 2017 with his critically and commercially successful adaptation of another LGBT classic, André Aciman's 2007 novel Call Me by Your Name. Lastly, the film was nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards.