For his first post-Harry Potter role, Daniel Radcliffe turned to horror to surprising success with The Woman in Black and for his next few films, he’s touring the festival circuit. Toronto International Film Festival will hold the premiere of Alexandre Aja‘s wild-looking Horns, but before that, he arrived at Sundance with yet another entry into the Beat Generation era, Kill Your Darlings.
Directed by John Krokidas, we were mostly fans of the drama, saying,”fast-paced and full of energy, Kill Your Darlings does its very best to expose the importance of the Beat movement and the individual importance of all those involved. Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac are each given their origin stories, the three young men growing up around the tragedy of Lucien Carr and David Kammerer.” We added that, “despite its snappy direction – impressive considering this is Krokidas’ feature debut – and solid performances, the investment in these characters as real human beings never fully lands.”
Ahead of a showing at Venice Film Festival, which kicks off later this month, we’ve now got the first brief teaser (which unfortunately abruptly cuts off), but it shows off the aforementioned energy, as well as Radcliffe, and even Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall and Ben Foster. While we wait for the full trailer, check out the teaser below for the film also starring Jack Huston, David Cross, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Elizabeth Olsen, Kyra Sedgwick and John Cullum.
Synopsis:
In this dynamic portrait of the early days of the Beat Generation, a young Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) and William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) become embroiled in the notorious 1944 murder of Burroughs’ childhood friend David Kammerer by the object of his affection, the Rimbaudian Beat muse Lucien Carr.
Kill Your Darlings opens on October 18th.