Eisenberg, Evans Will Star in Beat Generation Flick

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Actor Jesse Eisenberg will portray poet Allen Ginsberg on the big screen in the upcoming film Kill Your Darlings , Variety announced today.

Chris Evans and Ben Whishaw will also star in the film from lesbian producer Christine Vachon. The screenplay -- written by Austin Bunn and John Krokidas, who will also direct -- revolves around a 1944 murder that brought together Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William Burroughs, pioneers of the Beat Generation.

Eisenberg is currently starring in Adventureland .

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