Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” is set to have its world premiere at Venice on Tuesday, September 3. It still has no U.S. distributor, but odds are that it’ll get picked up at some point during the festival.
Deadline is reporting that the response to “Queer” has so far been “polarizing.” The film has indeed screened for most of the major U.S. distributors, but none have been enticed enough by what they’ve seen to acquire it. Venice boss Alberto Barbera has also confirmed that the production budget for “Queer” was 48 million Euros, which roughly translates to around $53M. We’ve already tackled how Guadagnino snipped over an hour of footage from his original cut, potentially to make the film more accessible for release.
Based on William S. Burroughs’ controversial novel, Guadagnino’s film wrapped production last July and recently wrapped editing. The film stars Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Omar Appolo, Henrique Zaga, Andres Duprat, Ariel Shulman, Drew Droege, Colin Bates, and filmmakers Lisandro Alonso, David Lowery, and Michael Borremans.
We also have our first look at Starkey, who stars as Craig’s sexual obsession in the film. The image, which can be seen below, was taken from Venice’s official program.
