Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino has roped in Knives Out star Daniel Craig to headline his feature film adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s novel Queer.

Craig was recently seen in Glass Onion, a sequel to Knives Out.

According to entertainment website Deadline, the Oscar-nominated director is currently raising financing for the project.

Queer centres on Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs.

“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,” the book description reads.

Queer was published in 1985, though the book had been written between 1951 and 1953.