Another Allen Ginsberg Movie
Jesse Eisenberg (left) 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. The Ginsberg genre is getting crowded: James Franco (right) has previously been announced to play the poet in a movie called “Howl.” I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds it amusing that Ginsberg, with his gnomic looks, is being interpreted by two screen hunks.
