With director Luca Guadagnino's Queer set to premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, the festival's organiser La Biennale di Venezia dropped the first-look poster for Daniel Craig's character on social media. Craig looks like he has been transported back to 1940s Mexico in the first-look poster for his upcoming film.

Based on William S Burroughs' semi-autobiographical novel Queer, the film stars Craig as the author's alter ego. The film revolves around Craig's character Lee, who resides in a community of American college-goers with part-time employment and bar owners who depend on GI Bill benefits. The themes of the book cover drug abuse and sex, with Lee growing an infatuation for Allerton (Starkey), a younger and discharged US Navy serviceman. A drug consumer, Allerton stays indifferent to the sexual advances from Lee but eventually relents to them.

The cast of Queer also includes Drew Starkey, Lesley Manville, Jason Schwartzman, Michael Borremans, David Lowery, and Andra Ursuta. The film marks the acting debut of singer-songwriter Omar Apollo as well.

Guadagnino’s Challengers screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes adapted Burroughs' Queer for the silver screen, in association with the filmmaker.