Fans have been reacting online as a first look image of Daniel Craig in Luca Guadagnino’s QUEER have emerged today (July 23).
The film will get its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September and will also star Drew Starkey and Omar Apollo in what will be the latter’s first film role.
An adaptation of William S. Burroughs Queer, Craig will play the author’s ego – an outcast American expat who now lives in Mexico and is battling a heroin addition.
Drew Starkey will appear as a younger man in the film with whom Craig’s character becomes infatuated with (as per Variety) while Apollo’s role in the film is as yet under wraps.
In a Venice Film Festival press conference, the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera said Craig’s “unusual” turn in the film was “the performance of his life.” You can see the first look image of the film, which is reported to be three hours long, along with some fan reaction to it on social media below.
#BiennaleCinema2024 #Venezia81 #Concorso #Competition pic.twitter.com/fKOd4EOwUq
— La Biennale di Venezia (@la_Biennale) July 23, 2024
I cannot wait!
— sydney au
(@MonocleFlyer) July 23, 2024
Daniel Craig has given memorable performances for years and it’s looking like Luca Guadagnino’s Queer finally might be his moment for well deserved praise. pic.twitter.com/aAV6I1vNUK
— Jillian
(@JillianChili) July 23, 2024
Omar Apollo confirms he’s in the cast of Luca Guadagnino’s 'Queer', alongside Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey.
Premiering at Venice Film Festival. pic.twitter.com/q9cHArN5at
— SoundsOfSeries (@SoundsOfSeries) July 23, 2024
Some word on Daniel Craig’s work in ‘Queer”
Barbera called Craig’s “unusual” turn in the film “the performance of his life.” https://t.co/ckzJUwsbSy
— gary
(@garymovies) July 23, 2024
Skimming over the Best Actor contenders this year, it looks like the cloest we have to consensus picks ATM are Colman Domingo for Sing Sing, Daniel Craig for Queer, and Ralph Fiennes for Conclave…there's definitely room for a possible surprise contender.
— Jonathan (@jonathanmb32) July 23, 2024
Recently, the first image of Craig from the upcoming third Knives Out film was been shared online.
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery was announced last month and is set to go into production shortly. It is slated for a 2025 release and will be the follow-up to 2022’s Glass Onion.
The film will see Craig return as the private detective Benoit Blanc for the third time, and now the first glimpse of the new-look Blanc has been revealed. In the black-and-white image, Blanc stands proud in an expensive suit, complete with long, parted hair. You can check it out here.
Jeremy Renner was added to the already loaded cast in recent weeks, joining the likes of Glenn Close, Kerry Washington, Andrew Scott, Josh O’Connor (Challengers) and Caile Spaeny (Priscilla).
Rian Johnson will once again return as writer and director. Plot details are yet to be revealed but in a teaser shared by Johnson in May, Blanc states the film will feature its “most dangerous case yet”.
“I love everything about whodunits, but one of the things I love most is how malleable the genre is,” Johnson wrote on social media before announcing the threequel’s title. “There’s a whole tonal spectrum from Carr to Christie, and getting to explore that range is one of the most exciting things about making Benoit Blanc movies.”
He continued: “We’re about to go into production on the third one, and I’m very, very excited to share the title, which gives a little hint of where it’s going.”
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