This year has been Luca Guadagnino’s year, and following the success of his erotic sports drama Challengers (2024), which is one of the best Prime Video movies right now, he’s about to break the internet once again with his upcoming romance drama Queer that stars Daniel Craig (Knives Out and Glass Onion) and Drew Starkey (Outer Banks and Love, Simon) with a screenplay from Justin Kuritzkes. The devil works hard, but Luca Guadagnino works harder.
The movie was picked up by production company A24, which makes up some of the best Max movies, and it’s just dropped the first trailer, which you can view below. Set for a November 27 US theatrical release, the first look at Guadagnino’s gay period drama fuels less tension compared to the trailer for Challengers and is more gentle in its insight to Craig and Starkey’s romantic bond – but it still packs the right dose of steaminess that we’ve come to expect with a Guadagnino drama.
In addition to Craig’s brilliantly awkward characterization are visually striking ‘will they, won’t they?’ moments that bring the lead protagonists closer together. The movie is expected to have a brief appearance from co-star singer Omar Apollo (who was on the Red, White and Royal Blue soundtrack) and will feature a number of other familiar actors such as Jason Schwartzman (Asteroid City and Rushmore), Leslie Manville (Netflix’s The Crown) and Henry Zaga (The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare) – all of whom unfortunately don’t appear in the trailer.
From first glance, it seems as though Guadagnino is revisiting themes of age-gap relationships, which garnered…
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