Even though the troubled poet was officially straight with a deep founded disgust for homosexuality, many scholars believe the author to have been at least bisexual.

Chris Evans will play a young football player-era Kerouac, while Jesse Eisenberg is cast as homo poet Allen Ginsberg and Ben Wishaw plays Lucien Carr, the self-destructive genius who brings them together.

Variety writes:

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."

Last update: 03-21-2009 07:34