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Actor Drew Starkey will star alongside Hollywood star Daniel Craig in filmmaker Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of author William S. Burroughs’ novel “Queer.”
According to entertainment news outlet DiversityThe film will also star actors Leslie Manville, Jason Schwartzman, and Henry Zaga.
“Queer” centers on Lee (Craig), who describes his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs.
Lee is self-conscious, insecure, and driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker (1930–1998), a recently retired US Navy veteran from Jacksonville, FL, who has served in Mexico. Befriended Burroughs in the city. Reads the book description.
Starkey, best known for starring in the Netflix series “Outer Banks,” will play a young man Lee becomes obsessed with.
Playwright Justin Kuritzkes, who wrote Guadagnino’s upcoming film “Challengers” starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Fast, has adapted the novel for the big screen, continuing his collaboration with the Italian director.
“Queer” was published in 1985, although it is said to have been written between 1951 and 1953.
The project is set to begin shooting later this month at Rome’s renovated Cinecittà studios, where the Mexico City-set film will be entirely filmed.