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New Kill Your Darlings Trailer – Daniel Radcliffe is very impressed by Dane Dehaan

August 4, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

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Many times with films that have gay themes (and which are looking for a mainstream audience), there’s a tendency to shy away from suggesting there’s anything LGBT about the movie in the trailer. However even in this new 30-second promo for Kill Your Darlings they’re not hiding the fact Daniel Radcliffe’s character is rather impressed by Dane DeHaan.

However if you were hoping for the gay sex scene that got everyone talking at Sundance, you’re gonna have to look elsewhere.

Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg (Daniel Radcliffe) to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston).

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – the gay Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers.

The film is due out October 18th in the US and November 8th in the UK. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Michael C. Hall, Ben Foster DIRECTORS: John Krokidas FILMS: Kill Your Darlings

James McAvoy Joins Daniel Radcliffe In New Frankenstein Movie

July 26, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A couple of weeks ago it was revealed that Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston were testing for the role of Dr. Victor Frankenstein in Fox’s planned new take on Mary Shelley’s classic tale. However neither of them scored the role, as Deadline now reports that James McAvoy is in the middle of making a deal for the movie.

He’ll join Daniel Radcliffe, who’s long been attached to play the servant Igor in the movie (it’s still no clear if Igor has been made a more central role in this take, or whether Radcliffe just wants to be a hunchback).

Chronicle’s Max Landis wrote the script for this new take on Frankenstein, with Paul McGuigan (Push) set to direct. The film promises a new take on the story, putting a sci-fi spin on the tale a creature that is produced by a scientific experiment.

The studio is hoping to move forward as soon as possible, as there are various other Frankenstein movies in development all over Hollywood – and that’s not to mention the more modern I Frankenstein, starring Aaron Eckhart, which is out early next year.

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ACTORS: James McAvoy, Daniel Radcliffe DIRECTORS: Paul McGuigan FILMS: Frankenstein

Toby Kebbell Or Jack Huston Could Be Frankenstein, Opposite Daniel Radcliffe’s Igor

June 25, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

For quite a while now, Daniel Radcliffe has been attached to 20th Century Fox’s upcoming version of Frankenstein. While the studio recently announced a release date of October 17th, 2014, there’s been no news on the rest of the cast, which is perhaps surprising as Radcliffe is playing what’s normally a side character, Igor.

However Deadline reports they’re now looking for the actor who will play Dr. Victor Frankenstein, with the two men currently leading the pack being Toby Kebbell and Jack Huston. However there’s no guarantee it’ll be either, as Fox is also looking elsewhere.

Kebbell, who made his first film appearance in the 2004 British crime thriller Dead Man Shoes, isn’t a big name, but has popped up in Oliver Stone’s Alexander, Woody Allen’s Match Point, Guy Ritchie’s Rocknrolla, and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse. Many expect his star to rise next year with a major role in Fox’s Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.

Jack Huston (who is the nephew of Anjelica Huston and Danny Huston, and grandson of director John Huston), is perhaps best known for playing the scarred Richard Harrow on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. He previously worked with Radcliffe on the upcoming Kill Your Darlings, in which the two actors play Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, respectively.

Fox is hoping to sign someone within the next couple of weeks.

Chronicle’s Max Landis wrote the script for this new take on Frankenstein, with Paul McGuigan (Push) set to direct.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, Toby Kebbell, Jack Huston FILMS: Frankenstein

Gay-Interest Indies Kill Your Darlings & Dallas Buyers Club Get US Release Dates

June 8, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Two of the biggest gay interest movies of the year, the Daniel Radcliffe starred Kill Your Darlings and Matthew McConaughey’s Dallas Buyers Club, has just been given their US cinema release dates.

Sony Pictures Classics has set Kill Your Darlings for a limited theatrical run starting on October 18th, with plans to roll it out nationally after that. Focus Features meanwhile has given Dallas Buyers Club a prime Oscar slot, with a release planned for December 6th.

Kill Your Darlings charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston).

Dallas Buyers Club sees McConaughey as real-life Texas electrician Ron Woodroof, an ordinary man who found himself in a life-or-death battle with the medical establishment and pharmaceutical companies. In 1986, Ron was blindsided by being diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live.

With the US still internally divided over how to combat the virus and restricting medications, Ron grabbed hold of non-toxic alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. Seeking to avoid government sanctions against selling non-approved medicines and supplements, he established a “buyers club,” which fellow HIV-positive people could join for access to his supplies.

Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto (as a cross-dressing gay man), Steve Zahn, Dallas Robert and Griffin Dunne also star.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, Matthew McConaughey FILMS: Kill Your Darlings, Dallas Buyers Club

Daniel Radclliffe Wants Some Tokyo Vice, Going Up Against The Yakuza

May 2, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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In the post-Harry Potter world, Daniel Radcliffe has been looking hard for interesting projects, such as playing poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. Now he’s got another intriguing movie lined up, as Deadline reports he’s set to star in an adaptation of Tokyo Vice, based on the memoirs of journalist Jake Adelstein.

The actor will portray Adelstein, an American reporter working the crime beat for the Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Shinbun. The main thrust about of the story of about how his non-stop investigation of Yakuza crime lord Tadamasa Goto came at a high personal cost, including threats against his life.

Anthony Mandler is set to direct from a screenplay by JT Rogers and Jake Adelstein. We won’t see this film for a while yet, as shooting is set to begin until early 2014.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe FILMS: Tokyo Vice

Quote Of The Day: Daniel Radcliffe On Being Asked About Playing Gay

February 13, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

“You never see a gay actor getting asked what it’s like to play straight — to my knowledge, at least, there is no difference in how heterosexual and homosexual people fall in love.”

Daniel Radcliffe talks to Out Magazine about the constant questions about playing gay in his upcoming movie, Kill Your Darlings. It’s an interesting article, covering everything from how he looks at his Harry Potter says to how he’d be happy to die on a film set at 80.

We were also pleased that while director John Korkidas’ quote in the article that Radcliffe is “He’s only British from the waist up,” first seemed like an insult to the size of the UK men’s downstairs departments, he’s actually referring to Daniel’s Jewish heritage.

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Daniel Radcliffe Explains That Not All English People Are Gay

January 22, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Daniel Radciffe is at the Sundance Film Festival for the premiere of Kill Your Darlings, in which he plays gay poet Allen Ginsberg. He’s been asked a lot about the gay sex scenes andwhether he found them difficult, to which he’s generally answered that it isn’t and should be any different to straight love scenes and people just need to get over it.

Out talked to him about the fact many people find his innate comfort around all sexualities to be empowering, to which he gave an interesting answer, including the fact that a lot of American think all Brits are gay.

He says, ‘I had an interesting conversation with someone recently, because there was a wonderful moment on the opening night of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying when one of the male chorus of the show tried to set up my bisexual dresser, who’s a woman—and who had been with a woman for a long time at that point—with my gay English singing teacher, which was never going to work.

‘I said, “Did you not know Mark was gay?” And he said, “To be honest, all English people I meet seem gay, so I just assume none of you are.”

‘I was talking to someone about this and I said, “Why is it that when people meet English men in America they automatically think they’re gay?” and one of the girls explained to me it was because American men feel the need to in some way assert a sense of masculinity in everything they do, and British men don’t feel the same compulsion to do that all the time.

‘I think my attitude towards homosexuality is actually the prevalent one in my generation—it’s just unfortunate that in the world of the Internet sometimes the angriest voices are the ones we hear the loudest. But I can’t remember the last time I met somebody of my age who was bigoted. Obviously it exists, but I do think attitudes are changing.’

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe FILMS: Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe Talks About His Gay Sex Scenes In Kill Your Darlings

January 19, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Daniel Radcliffe is in Utah for the premiere of Kill Your Darlings at the Sundance Film Festival, in which he plays gay poet Allan Ginsberg. TheImproper was at last night’s screening and managed to catch what the former Harry Potter had to say about his gay sex scenes in the film, which includes ‘oral sex, making out and getting naked for sex, all with men.’

“It was something new,” Radcliffe said. “But you know what, we shot that whole scene in maybe an hour and a half so it was incredibly fast-paced. I didn’t really have time to stop to think and worry about it.”

He also thinks getting to know his scene-mate helped. “We were able to hang out a little bit on set and get to know each other a little bit, which I think is important when you’re doing a scene so intimate. “You have to feel like you’re both in it together.”

The movie charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Ben Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Jack Huston). Indeed, Ginsberg later said that “Lou was the glue” that brought the beat poets and writers together.

During these early, hedonistic days, a man called David Kammerer (Michael C. Hall) fell for Carr, with his infatuation becoming increasingly obsessive and unhinged – Ginsberg once discovered Kammerer trying to murder Jack Kerouac’s cat. It eventually resulted in Carr stabbing Kammerer to death him and going to prison for his murder. The violent event is said to have indelibly changed all the people involved and etched its way into the published works of the Beat writers.

Although Carr said the killing took place after he rejected Kammerer’s sexual advances and was assaulted as a result, many have suggested that Lucien wasn’t as heterosexual as he made out, and that he and Ginsberg had been lovers. The full truth of what happened may never be known. Whatever happened, it was a pivotal moment for Ginsberg, who had been exceptionally close to Carr whether they’d been lovers or not.

The film is said to look at all this, with many giving it good notices from its Sundance premiere.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan FILMS: Kill Your Darlings

First Pic Of Daniel Radcliffe & Dane Dehaan In Kill Your Darlings

December 18, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A few months ago we got a few set pics of Daniel Radcliffe playing gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings. Now we’ve got the first official pic, showing Radcliffe along Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston and Ben Foster (at least we think that’s who is on the left).

The movies charts how a murder helped shape the lives of a group of young men who went on to become the beat generation. Chronicle star DeHaan plays Lucien Carr, the man who introduced Howl writer Allen Ginsberg to the likes of William S. Burroughs (Foster) and Jack Kerouac (Huston). Indeed, Ginsberg said that “Lou was the glue” that brought the beat poets and writers together.

Although Carr said the killing took place after he rejected Kammerer’s sexual advances and was assaulted as a result, many have suggested that Lucien wasn’t as heterosexual as he made out, and that he and Ginsberg had been lovers (something the earlier set pics suggest will also include). The full truth of what happened may never be known. Whatever happened, it was a pivotal moment for Ginsberg, who had been exceptionally close to Carr whether they’d been lovers or not.

The film premieres in January at Sundance and should hit cinemas in 2013.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan, Jack Huston, Ben Foster FILMS: Kill Your Darlings

Daniel Radcliffe Gets Arrested (but only on the set of his new film)

November 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Harry Potter is so grown up he’s getting arrested! Well, Daniel Radcliffe’s character in his new movie is anyway. He’s currently shooting Horns, which as you as you can see from the pics above and below, sees him as a young man who literally gets horny.

Omelete managed to get to get hold of some pics from the set, which see Radcliffe getting physical with a man and then resisting arrest!

Based on the best-selling novel by Joe Hill (son of Stephen King) and directed by Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D) from a screenplay by Keith Bunin (In Treatment), Horns is a supernatural thriller that follows Ig Perrish (Radcliffe), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Juno Temple).

Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realises their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend’s tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer. It’ll hit cinemas next year, and if these pics are anything to go by Radcliffe will be in fighting form.

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ACTORS: Daniel Radcliffe DIRECTORS: Alexandre Aja FILMS: Horns