Kill Your Darlings gets a cast, sort of
| April 8th, 2009
There’s news floating all around the Internet that Kill Your Darlings, a film about Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the beginning of the Beat Generation, is finally coming together.
It sems like Ginsberg will be played by Jesse Eisenberg, Kerouac by Chris Evans and Carr by Ben Whishaw. The strangest part, though, is that not one of these sources even mentions David Kammerer. Kammerer, of course, was killed by Lucien Carr and would ostensibly have a part in a film that uses his death as its jumping-off point.
Jesse Eisenberg will play poet Allen Ginsberg in “Kill Your Darlings,” an ensemble about the murder that helped spawn the Beat Generation.Chris Evans and Ben Whishaw will also star in the pic, which is helmed by tyro John Krokidas, who penned the script with his onetime Yale roommate Austin Bunn.
Whishaw will play Lucien Carr, the Columbia U. undergrad who brought together Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac (Evans) and William S. Burroughs.
Maybe the part of David Kammerer just hasn’t been filled yet.
Eisenberg to star in Ginsberg film [Variety]
