Naked Lunch (film) Naked Lunch (film) Naked Lunch is a 1991 drama film co-written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain and Japan. The film was released on December 27, 1991, in the United States and April 24, 1992, in the United Kingdom by 20th Century Fox. It received positive reviews from critics, but was a box office bomb, garnering only $2.6 million out of a $17–18 million budget due to a limited
Interzone (book) The villain of the piece, Doctor Benway, was to play a pivotal role in "Naked Lunch". (This story differs from another Burroughs piece titled "Twilight's Last Gleamings," which was published in the 1970s collection, "Exterminator!".) "Interzone" features many characters and concepts that would manifest themselves in "Naked Lunch", "Nova Express" and others. At one point, Interzone was considered as a title for "Naked Lunch". Moreover, the concluding section entitled "WORD" was part of the original "Naked Lunch" manuscript but was cut during the editing process (according to the introduction by editor James Grauerholz). Several of the short pieces were adapted