Mubi has picked up rights to Luca Guadagnino’s Queer in multiple territories.
The deal with Fremantle covers the UK, Ireland, Canada, Latin America, Germany, Austria, Benelux, Spain, Turkey and India and all rights excluding theatrical in Italy. The Veterans brokered the deal with Mubi, the arthouse streamer.
This follows Queer‘s world premiere in competition at the Venice International Film Festival and North American premiere in Toronto. In August, we revealed A24 had picked up U.S. rights to Guadagnino’s film, which is an adaptation of the William S. Burroughs novel.
No release plans unveiled by Mubi yet, but the film is getting its U.S. premiere in the Spotlight Gala at the New York Film Festival and a UK screening as a special presentation at the BFI London Film Festival.
Set in 1950, Queer follows William Lee (Craig), an American expat in Mexico City, who spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. An encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
Queer reunited director Guadagnino with scribe Justin Kuritzkes after the pair had worked on Challengers together. Music is from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, with cinematography from Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, editing from Marco Costa and costume design by J.W. Anderson, all of whom worked on spicy tennis-themed pic Challengers.
Queer was produced by Fremantle, Fremantle North America, Lorenzo Mieli for Fremantle-owned The Apartment and Luca Guadagnino for his Frenesy Film Company, in collaboration with Cinecittà and Frame by Frame. Fremantle financed the film.