A24 has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to Queer, director Luca Guadagnino‘s new movie starring Daniel Craig.

The announcement comes forward of the film’s world premiere on the 81st Venice Movie Competition. The movie additionally stars Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Andra Ursuta, Michael Borremans and David Lowery.

Queer, tailored from William S. Burroughs’s novel of the identical identify, is about in Nineteen Fifties Mexico Metropolis. It follows William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late 40s, as he lives a solitary life amidst a small American neighborhood. Nonetheless, when Eugene Allerton, a younger man, arrives on the town, William finds himself lastly establishing a significant reference to somebody.

“Queer is a labor of affection, and we couldn’t be extra excited that our movie has discovered a house with a studio as daring, important and trail-blazing as A24,” Craig and Guadagnino mentioned in a joint assertion. “It’s our deep honor to lastly deliver Burroughs’ legendary novel to life on display for the primary time, and we really feel immense gratitude and pleasure to have the ability to current it alongside our treasured collaborators. We couldn’t ask for higher companions on this journey.” 

The screenplay was written by Justin Kuritzkes, who additionally collaborated with Guadagnino on the Zendaya-led Challengers.

The movie was produced by Fremantle, Fremantle North America, Lorenzo Mieli for The Condominium, a Fremantle Group Firm and Luca Guadagnino for his Frenesy Movie Firm, in collaboration with Cinecitta and Body by Body. Fremantle Group financed the movie. 

CAA Media Finance brokered the deal. 

Queer is about to be launched later this 12 months.