Daniel Craig Will Star in Luca Guadagnino's Adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 'Queer' : Report

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Daniel Craigis taking on a modern literary classic for his next project.

InQueer, self-conscious and insecure Lee recounts his life in Mexico City, during which he befriends and pursues Allerton (based on Burroughs' friend Adelbert Lewis Marker), a recently discharged American Navy serviceman from Florida.

Although written between 1951 and 1953 as a spiritual sequel to his semi-autobiographical 1953 workJunkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict, the book was unpublished until 1985, when Burroughs explained that it represented him off heroin.

Justin Kuritzkes is writing the screen adaptation,Deadlinereported.

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Craig’s casting comes on the heels of another scene-stealing performance in an LGBTQ role, after hisKnives Outdetective character Benoit Blancwas revealed to be gayin auteurRian Johnson’s newNetflixsequelGlass Onion, which hits the streaming platform on Dec. 23.

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Craig toldDeadlineof the revelation: “It’s all good. Theless of a song and dancewe 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 added. “And why shouldn’t it be? I don’t want people to get politically hung up on anything.”

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