September 4th, 2013 
James Shotwell 
Daniel Radcliffe has not quite found his footing in acting post-Harry Potter, but this fall he’ll try to win over audience once more when he becomes Allen Ginsberg in a film about the 1944 murder of David Kammerer.
Kill Your Darlings is not a period piece in the classical sense, but it does take place in a world that feels like a distant departure from the one we know now. Radcliffe stars as Ginsberg in the film, while Ben Foster co-stars as William Burroughs and Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac. Michael C. Hall’s story is told from the grave as Kammerer, while Dane DeHaan plays his killer, Lucien Carr. The film follows Ginsberg through his early college years as he becomes romantically involved with Carr and circumstances spiral out of control. The cinematography looks to create an overarching sense of anxiety to the proceedings, and in the first trailer that approach works like gangbusters. You can view the clip below.
Speaking to The Hollywood Report about the film when it debuted at Sundance earlier this year, Radcliffe commented, “There’s a tendency to really hold these guys up on pedestals as they became giants of American literature, and there’s a tendency to be, I think reverential towards them. That’s not what we were interested in doing. We were interested in showing them just running around having a great time in New York when they all first met.”
Sony Pictures Classics will release Kill Your Darlings theatrically on October 18. Comment below and let us know if you think Radcliffe will find the hit he needs to stay relevant.
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