The Daniel Craig Forum

Vanquish wrote: ↑Mon Sep 04, 2023 11:14 am New information about Queer in Deadline including a photo from the set. It sounds like a very intense performance from Daniel. Perhaps a bit too edgy for mainstream tastes.

https://deadline.com/2023/09/lorenzo-mi ... 235534484/

Lorenzo Mieli: How The Italian Producer Of Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’, Luca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’ & HBO’s ‘My Brilliant Friend’ Is Breaking Global Boundaries – Venice

“He taught me a big lesson,” compliments Guadagnino about Mieli’s editing touch, “You don’t need to get the character to walk a lot of steps in order to give a sense of tempo in a movie.” The director says that with Queer he wanted a Mexico City, dreamy with colors that was “in a way staged, not real,” hence Mieli’s suggestion to recreate the location at Cinecittà.

At Guadagnino’s editing suite with Costa, Mieli screens what’s essentially a sizzle reel for Queer. Costa cut it so that Mieli and Guadagnino could get a feel for the pic’s tone. However, the jazzy, frenetic footage is exciting enough to easily serve as a trailer or a pitch to buyers, should the filmmakers plan to use it. Queer is based on William Burroughs’s 1985 novel, but it was written between 1951 and 1953. The book is also a follow-up to the author’s Junkie. The pic follows Craig as Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. Lee is self-conscious, insecure and driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker (1930-1998), a recently discharged American Navy serviceman from Jacksonville, FL, who befriended Burroughs in Mexico City.

We’ve seen the 007 actor play raw before, but not like this, hallucinating, strung out, entranced by a ceiling fan and crazily popping off a gun. Images of bugs, dirty wallpaper and blood. The colors are vibrant in pinks and blues, and greys. While Costa is known to work fast (he edited Challengers in 15 days), Queer is still in need of VFX backdrops, evident in the green screens popping up in additional footage we watched. It would not be shocking to see that Italy’s next big cinema export, Queer, in the Oscar conversation next year.

Like Leone with his spaghetti westerns, Queer is another Mieli project, set abroad, about an American, but made in Italy.

“I think you should be aware of the fact that Lorenzo is a producer on the scenario of the world, not from Italy,” emphasizes Guadagnino, “Italy is just the passport.”

Germangirl wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:57 am Hm, as with Rachels project, which has flopped, I am not a fan of this kind if movie. Do we really need more of that on screen? Its in the real world enough and progressing.
What people need is tutoring how to get it right and to understand, what is going on behind the curtains.

Germangirl wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 6:03 am Yes, he does. But I dont.

Germangirl wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 6:57 am Hm, as with Rachels project, which has flopped, I am not a fan of this kind if movie. Do we really need more of that on screen? Its in the real world enough and progressing.
What people need is tutoring how to get it right and to understand, what is going on behind the curtains.

Germangirl wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:08 pm Well, it did flop, didnt it?