Kill Your Darlings (2006 film)

Kill Your Darlings
File:Kill Your Darlings.jpg Promotional poster for Kill Your Darlings.
Directed by	Björne Larson
Written by	Björne Larson
Starring	Lolita Davidovich Andreas Wilson Fares Fares Alexander Skarsgård Julie Benz John Larroquette Greg Germann Benito Martinez

Kill Your Darlings is a 2006 film directed by Björne Larson and written by Björne Larson and Johan Sandström. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, Larson said that the film is based on a real event in his life when he met a seemingly nice man at an internet cafe in Los Angeles who ended up leaving Larsson bound and restrained in a desert. The film features a cast of many of the most popular contemporary Swedish actors (Fares Fares, father and son Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, and Andreas Wilson from Oscar-nominated Evil) and some less famous US actors (Julie Benz, Greg Germann and Lolita Davidovitch).

The title seems to be a reference to the popular advice for writers, "Murder your darlings," commonly misattributed but written by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.

Cast

• Lolita Davidovich as Lola
• Andreas Wilson as Erik
• Fares Fares as Omar
• Alexander Skarsgård as Geert
• Julie Benz as Katherine
• John Larroquette as Dr. Bangley
• Greg Germann as Stevens
• Benito Martinez as Officer Jones
• John Savage as Rock
• Terry Moore as Ella Toscana
• Skye McCole Bartusiak as Sunshine
• Michelle Bonilla as Susan (as Michelle C. Bonilla)
• Scott Williamson as Rob Wolfton
• Ashlyn Sanchez as Meadow
• Michael Cutt as Lou (as Michael J. Cutt)
• Stellan Skarsgård as Erik's Father

See also

• Peter Hansen Gibson
• Gudrun Giddings

External links

• Kill Your Darlings at IMDb
• Kill Your Darlings at the Swedish Film Institute Database