Harry Potter will play the leader of the Beatniks of Allen Ginzberg

Harry Potter performer, 22-year-old British actor Daniel Radcliffe, will play the leader of the poet’s battleship Allen Ginzberg (1926-1997) in the independent drama of “Kill Your Darlings), OpenSpace reports about the link to The Hollywood Reporter .

The film will be set up by the novice director John Crokidas. He previously proposed the role of Ginzberg Jesse Aizenberg. Rumors about participation in the Radcliffe project went since last fall, but officially confirmed only now.

The film, the premiere of which is scheduled for 2013, is based on real history.

In 1944, 19-year-old Bitnik Lucien Carr stabbed his lover in the fight, then told everything to his friend William Burrose, and Jack Kerouac helped them get rid of evidence, which did not prevent the killer from repenting, surrendering to the police and getting ten years of prison.

After liberation from prison, Lucien Carr got a job at United Press, where he worked for about half a century until his death in 2005. He maintained good relations with bastard friends and helped promote their work. It is believed that it was Carr that brought Jack Keruak a huge skein of paper on which he printed his cult novel on the road.

Allen Ginzberg is the famous American poet of the second half of the 20th century, the founder of the Betnikov flow and one of the most striking representatives of the counterculture of the 50s and 60s. The author of one of the main works of biting, the poem "Call" (1956).

Ginzberg participated in non -violent political protests for many years - from speeches against the war in Vietnam and for the rights of sexual minorities to the campaign for "demi -stimulation of information about drugs."