Kill Your Darlings - Trailer

  • 20 November 2013

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Kill Your Darlings is the previously untold story of friendship, jealousy, genius and murder that sparked the literary revolution of the 1940's. Kill Your Darlings follows the story of: Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, the four great poets of the Beat Generation and how they were all implicated by the brutal murder of David Kamerer.

Allen Ginsberg must decide whether to use his literary skills to clear his friends name or to reveal what he believes to be the truth in this biographical thriller.

Based on true events, Kill Your Darlings has been nominated for the Grandy Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and is the directorial debut from John Krokidas winner of the 'Director to Watch' at the 2013 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

The film stars Harry Potter and Woman in Black star Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg and Chronical star Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr as well as featuring Michael C. Hall (Dexter), Jack Huston (Outlander), Ben Foster (3:10 To Yuma, The Mechanic), David Cross (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and Elizabeth Olsen (Martha Marcy May Marlene) in this all star, critically acclaimed biographical, crime thriller.

Kill Your Darlings is due for release December 6th 2013 (UK)