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'Challengers' screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes on his trippy, scary adaptation of 'Queer'

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Justin Kuritzkes adapted William S. Burroughs' " Queer " for director Luca Guadagnino .

He wrote Challengers (his first produced screenplay) on spec, with no idea who would make it.

Kuritzke : "You're writing [the movie] to will it into existence".

Kuritzkes: "I really wanted to make it possible for the two of them to communicate with each other" The film incorporates some elements from Burroughs ' life that aren't in the novel, like allusions to him shooting his wife Joan Vollmer in an attempted William Tell stunt.

"We were making a fictional movie about a character, and even though that character was an alter ego to some extent of the author," he said.

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