Will Killer Films once again find themselves in one of them conundrums where they come out second in dueling biopics portrayals? When Capote was first to be released theatrically, it sealed the fate for Killer Film’s Infamous (WIP gave it the quick death in theaters). Though
Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman‘s Howl focuses mostly on Ginsberg’s later-in-life trials and tribulations, there is enough narrative overlap here and perhaps filmland can only have enough room for one Allen Ginsberg interpretation and not two.
Christine Vachon is moving ahead with John Krokidas’s directorial debut Kill Your Darlings, hiring Jesse Eisenberg, Chris Evans and Ben Whishaw to star in the Krokidas/Austin Bunn script. Whishaw as Lucien Carr, the Columbia University undergrad who brought together a circle of writers that included Allen Ginsberg, to be played by Eisenberg, and Jack Kerouac, to be played by Evans.
Killer Films’ Christine Vachon will produce with D/F Management’s Steve Dontanville exec producing. John Wells will serve as exec producer.
