Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans cast in Beat Generation biopic

Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans, and Ben Whishaw have been cast in Kill Your Darlings, a biopic about the murder that led to the birth of the Beat Generation. Eisenberg, star of next month’s Adventureland, plays poet Allen Ginsberg, while Evans (Fantastic Four) takes on the role of writer Jack Kerouac, and Whishaw (Brideshead Revisited) appears as Lucien Carr, the man credited with bringing together Ginsberg, Kerouac and William Burroughs. Newcomer John Krokidas is directing. Killer Films’ Christine Vachon (Boys Don’t Cry) is producing.

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chris
Tue 03/17/09 3:09 PM

wow, this is exciting. it’s good to see young actors taking on complex roles.

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Tue 03/17/09 3:30 PM

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Martin Haro
Tue 03/17/09 3:46 PM

Isn’t Adventureland opening on April 3 now?

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Alex
Wed 03/18/09 12:10 AM

I’m surprised they aren’t just doing an adaptation of the novel Burroughs and Kerouac wrote about the incident.

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