It looks like Harry Potter got a new pair of glasses. Sony Pictures Classics released the trailer for Kill Your Darlings, which casts Daniel Radcliffe as the young Allen Ginsberg. Radcliff is still in school but he’s ditched his robes and most of his accent. Kill Your Darlings is based on the true story of the 1944 murder of David Kammerer and Allen Ginsberg’s connection to it.
The Kill Your Darlings trailer looks like a romantic, gay, coming-of-age murder mystery. Set in the forties, Radcliffe’s Ginsberg is a questioning student who can’t catch a football. He’s involved with one of those people he really shouldn’t be involved with and doesn’t heed the warnings. Kill Your Darlings looks like it has the whole Columbia University literary gang that changed the way people wrote without writing a word.
Kill Your Darlings was directed by John Krokidas and also features Ben Foster as William Burroughs (I’d recognize that voice anywhere), Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac, Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer, Dane DeHaan as Kimmerer’s killer, Lucien Carr and Elizabeth Olsen.
Kill Your Darlings premiered at Sundance and the producers hope it might spark a “Beat Generation” revival. Radcliffe told reporters "There's a tendency to really hold these guys up on pedestals as they became giants of American literature, and there's a tendency to be, I think reverential toward them. That's not what we were interested in doing. We were interested in showing them just running around having a great time in New York when they all first met."
Kill Your Darlings will hit theaters on Oct. 18.
SOURCE: THR
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