Apparently Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, has agreed to play the role of Allen Ginsberg in John Krokidas’ new movie, Kill Your Darlings. The movie is said to revolve around the 1944 New York world of the Beats, focusing on the fallout from the murder of David Kammerer.

Radcliffe takes over from Jesse Eisenberg, who was originally slated to play Ginsberg, and joins Chris Evans and Ben Wishaw in the line-up. The usual movie news websites seem to enjoy playing up the fact that this is a “gay” movie.

It seems that the Beats are firmly back in film fashion, with Howl, On the Road, Big Sur, and Queer all attracting attention recently. Let’s just hope Radcliffe does as good a job as James Franco.

Related posts:

Hunter S. Thompson Translated into Chinese
In the past few months, we've brought you news about Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Wil...
Do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?
Groundhog, do you burrow like William Seward Burroughs?In a windowless bunker at 222 B...
DVD Reviews: The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs: A Man Within
Review by Michael Hendrick; Photo by Jerry AronsonA look around at the landscape of to...
Herbert Huncke - Times Square Superstar
by Spencer Kansa.  I first met Herbert Huncke in the Spring of 1992, during a layov...
Buddhists and Dharma Bums
Sometime in the early 1950s, the Beat Generation helped bring Buddhism to the West, or at ...
Naked Lunch on Film: Filming The Unfilmable
by David S. WillsThe novel does not obviously lend itself to adaptation for the screen...