Daniel Radcliffe Reportedly Set to Play Poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings

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12:54 pm, January 24th, 2012

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Daniel Radcliffe, boy wizard and Broadway sensation, has reportedly signed on for a new movie role.

He will play famed poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings, according to THR.

The thriller concerns a 1944 murder that brings together beat icons Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.

It’s also set to feature Elizabeth Olsen.

Gossip Cop is reaching out for confirmation on Radcliffe’s casting.

Radcliffe will next be seen on the big screen in the horror film The Woman in Black (watch trailer).

In 2010, James Franco portrayed Ginsberg in Howl.

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