Radcliffe went on to film the last two Harry Potter films, Deathly Hallows – Part 1 and Part 2, and with him unavailable for filming, Chris Evans, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ben Whishaw were cast without Radcliffe. In 2008, while performing Equus on Broadway, Daniel Radcliffe auditioned and got the part of Ginsberg. A week or two later he receives the typescript in the mail with an encouraging letter from his professor telling him to pursue his writing. He chooses the former, but is forced to leave his typescript behind. Either he must be expelled or he must embrace establishment values. On the basis of that shocking piece of prose, Ginsberg is faced with possible expulsion from Columbia. Ginsberg then submits "The Night in Question" as his final term paper. Carr is not convicted of murder and receives only a short sentence for manslaughter.
After the trial, Carr testified that the attack took place only because Kammerer was a sexual predator, and that Carr killed him in self-defense. Carr rejects the "fictional" story, and begs a determined Ginsberg not to reveal it to anybody, afraid that it will ruin him in the ensuing trial.įrom Carr's mother, it is revealed that Kammerer was the first person to seduce Carr, when he was much younger and lived in Chicago. The piece describes a more emotional event, in which Carr kills Kammerer who outright tells him to after being threatened with the knife, devastated by this final rejection. Ginsberg is at first reluctant to help the unstable Carr, but after digging up more crucial evidence on Kammerer and his past relationship, he writes a piece titled "The Night in Question". Carr asks Ginsberg to write his deposition for him. In a confrontation between Carr and Kammerer, Kammerer is killed by stabbing and Carr is arrested. Kammerer, in retaliation, puts Kerouac's cat into the oven only for Kerouac to discover and rescue it in the middle of the night.Īfter a while, Kerouac and Carr attempt to run off and join the merchant marine together, hoping to go to Paris. As Ginsberg spirals into the lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and cigarettes along with his newfound friends, he slowly starts developing romantic feelings for Carr.Ĭarr tells Kammerer he is done with him and recruits Ginsberg to write his term papers instead. Together, these ambitious people decided to start a new literary movement named The New Vision as a rebellion towards laws, institutions and Ginsberg and Carr's lawful professor Steeves. Burroughs ( Ben Foster), who is far into drug experimentation, and the writer Jack Kerouac ( Jack Huston), who was a sailor at that time and expelled from Columbia. Kammerer has a predatory relationship with Carr and is in love with him, pressuring Carr for sexual favors in exchange for assuring that he cannot be expelled.Īs Ginsberg spent more time with Carr, he soon meets William S. Hall), who writes all of Carr's term papers for him. Ginsberg discovers that Carr only manages to stay at Columbia thanks to a professor working as a janitor, David Kammerer ( Michael C. He arrives as a very inexperienced freshman, but soon runs into Lucien Carr ( Dane DeHaan), an unruly character who holds strong anti-establishment beliefs. In 1944, poet Allen Ginsberg ( Daniel Radcliffe) wins a place at Columbia University in New York City. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac), their interactions, and Carr's killing of his long-time friend David Kammerer in Riverside Park in Manhattan, New York City. The story is about the college days of some of the earliest members of the Beat Generation ( Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Kill Your Darlings became available on Blu-ray and DVD, Main the US, followed by its UK release on April 21, 2014. It was shown at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, and it had a limited theatrical North American release from October 16, 2013. The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, garnering positive first reactions. Kill Your Darlings is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Austin Bunn and directed by John Krokidas in his feature film directorial debut.
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