description Kill Your Darlings Overview
Kill Your Darlings chronicles the formative years of several key figures within the Beat Generation – Lucien Carr, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and Jack Kerouac – during their time at college. The film, directed by John Krokidas, explores the relationships and events that shaped this influential literary movement. It is based on the screenplay written by Austin Bunn.
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info Kill Your Darlings Specifications
| Country | United States |
| Year | 2013 |
help Kill Your Darlings FAQ
Which Beat writers appear in Kill Your Darlings?
The film depicts Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Jack Kerouac, and William S. Burroughs before the Beat Generation became famous. Daniel Radcliffe plays Ginsberg, with Dane DeHaan as Carr.
What real murder is depicted in Kill Your Darlings?
The story builds toward Lucien Carr's 1944 killing of David Kammerer in New York's Riverside Park. Michael C. Hall plays Kammerer, whose long and troubled relationship with Carr drives the film's crime plot.
Is Kill Your Darlings based on a book by Ginsberg?
No, John Krokidas and Austin Bunn wrote it as a biographical screenplay. The same murder later inspired Burroughs and Kerouac's collaborative novel And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.
Is Kill Your Darlings primarily a romance or a crime film?
It combines a queer coming-of-age story with biographical drama and a murder narrative. The central emotional relationship is Ginsberg's fascination with Carr, but the 1944 Kammerer case shapes the ending.
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