Kill Your Darlings (2006 film)

Kill Your Darlings
Promotional poster
Directed byBjörne Larson
Written byBjörne Larson
StarringLolita Davidovich
Andreas Wilson
Fares Fares
Alexander Skarsgård
Julie Benz
John Larroquette
Greg Germann
Benito Martinez
Release date
  • 12 April 2006 (2006-04-12)[1]
Running time
94 minutes
CountrySweden
LanguageSwedish

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 Larson bound and restrained in a desert.[2] 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), some less famous U.S. actors, Julie Benz and Greg Germann, and Canadian Lolita Davidovich.

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.[3]

  1. ^ @SkarsJoy (12 April 2020). "Today is the anniversary of the release of Björne Larson's KILL YOUR DARLINGS (April 12, 2006). Alexander Skarsgård…" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ^ Stefan Malmovist (2006-04-11). "Handlar filmen om ditt liv?" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2007-03-11.
  3. ^ Forrest Wickman (2013-10-18). "Who Really Said You Should "Kill Your Darlings"?". Browbeat (Slate). Retrieved 2016-03-23.