Very interesting news coming out from this story in Variety:Jesse Eisenberg will play poet Allen Ginsberg in "Kill Your Darlings," an ensembler 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.
Killer Films' Christine Vachon is producing the pic with D/F Management; Steve Dontanville exec produces. Killer remains in business with producer John Wells, who will exec produce "Darlings."
GC Corp., Killer's financial partner, is teaming with CAA to arrange financing.
Eisenberg toplines Greg Mottola's "Adventureland," which bows this month. Evans, who just starred in "Push," is filming "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World." Whishaw was in "The International" and is appearing in Julie Taymor's "The Tempest" and Jane Campion's "Bright Star."
-I'm a big fan of the Beat Generation, so this has my attention...how bout you?
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Isn't James Franco also playing Ginsburg in a Gus van Sant project? Funny that they keep hiring handsome guys to play Ginsburg -- a great poet but, um, a seriously unattractive guy.
ReplyDeletethat guy looks like Simon Amstell from popworld and never mind the buzzcocks.
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