Daniel Craig’s new movie Queer has officially confirmed its UK release date.
Directed by Challengers and Call Me By Your Name‘s Luca Guadagnino, the film stars Craig as an expat who tries to numb his pain with drink, drugs, and casual sex. He meets a younger ex-serviceman, played by Drew Starkey, and becomes obsessed with him.
Following its screening at London’s BFI Film Festival, the film will be released in UK and Irish cinemas on December 13.
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Craig recently explained how he came to be involved in the film, recalling that he and the director go back a long way.
“We [Guadagnino and I] met 20 years ago and said, ‘Hey, we want to work together,’ and we finally did,” he said.
“If I wasn’t in this movie and I saw this movie, I’d want to be in it. It’s the kind of film I want to see [and] make – I want it to be out there.”
The film has plenty of reviews already from its festival screenings, and the common consensus is that both Craig and Starkey give outstanding performances, although critics were more divided on the third act, which sees the main characters head into the jungle to look for a drug that can give them telepathy.
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Meanwhile, Guadagnino was recently reported to be in final negotiations to direct a new adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel American Psycho, which previously became a film in 2000 with Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman.
Lionsgate Motion Picture Group’s chair Adam Fogelson said: We are thrilled to add another elite filmmaker to our upcoming slate.
“Luca is a brilliant artist, and the perfect visionary to create a whole new interpretation of this potent and classic IP.”
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