Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2012: #78. Steve Buscemi’s Queer

#78. Queer

Director: Steve Buscemi
Writer: Oren Moverman
Producers: Buscemi, Moverman and Wren Arthur (A Prairie Home Companion)
Distributor: Rights Available

The Gist: Written by Oren Moverman, this is a biopic of William S Burroughs based on his novels Queer and Junky and about the period spent by author William S. Burroughs in Mexico City in the late 1940s and early ’50s…(more)

Cast: Guy Pearce, Kelly Macdonald and Ben Foster

List Worthy Reasons…: An actor who I sincerely hope would devote more time behind the camera (examples Tree Lounge, Interview and one vivid Sopranos episode I have in mind prove that Buscemi has got the goods) our first and only William S. Burroughs fix for 2012 might come via Viggo Mortensen’s bit of Old Bull Lee in On the Road. With a great trio of characters and Moverman’s involvement, plus the fact that the novel was written in ’52 but only published in 1984 adds to the fascination behind the prose of this great American Beat Generation novelist.

Release Date/Status?: Originally meant to be Buscemi’s first directing project about a decade ago, scribe/producer Oren Moverman recently dusted off the cobwebs with the first casting summary in Guy Pearce, Kelly MacDonald and The Messenger/Rampart‘s Ben Foster. If Buscemi can plan around his work as an actor (Boardwalk Empire among others) then a 2012 shoot date would be a possibility and a 2013 premiere more than likely.