In a new interview with PopSugar, Daniel Radcliffe talks Kill Your Darlings as well as Harry Potter and writing his own script.

PS: Do you have plans to work in film outside of acting?
DR: I have written a script. I’ve completed it; I don’t know if it’s any good, but it’s certainly nice to have finished something. That’s a huge achievement for me at this point. It’s a very, very dark comedy. There’s always themes I’m really interested in. They are themes that aren’t dissimilar to [Kill Your Darlings], about friendship and when a friendship becomes unhealthy and what you have to do to move on from that. But it’s a much more heightened scenario. It’s probably sh*t! But the point is, I’ve finished it, and the next thing I write won’t be!

PS: Coming from an environment of huge film sets of Harry Potter, what’s refreshing about making smaller films?
DR: Everything, absolutely. It’s a much better way of working, and it’s a much more creative way of working to have to go quickly rather than going slow. Twenty-four shooting days — I think that adds something to the film, and I think that adds a kind of vitality you need in a film about youth and about the Beat Generation.

PS: What are some of the differences?
DR: Really the only difference in doing big films as opposed to small films — they’re very superficial, the differences — they’re things like, how long do you have the crane camera for? On Potter, where I grew up, there were two crane cameras on set all the time, just because you might need one later! And I didn’t even realize that was weird or unusual. And we were recceing locations for this shoot, and I heard John (Krokidas, the director) say to our producer, “OK, so this is the day we’ll have the crane.” And I was like, oh, we get one day with the crane, and we have to do all our crane stuff.

Sony Pictures Classics has released the 2-minute official trailer for Kill Your Darlings. The film, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as poet Allen Ginsberg. The film will be shown at various film festivals and will have a limited US release starting October 18th.

A new clip from Daniel Radcliffe’s new film Kill Your Darlings has been released and posted by Daniel Radcliffe France. The film is, “an untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution.”  The film will have a limited release on New York and LA starting October 18th.

The clip contains some strong language, parents be warned.

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A teaser trailer for Daniel Radcliffe’s film, Kill Your Darlings has been released and may be watched below. The film is, “an untold story of murder that brought together a young Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs at Columbia University in 1944, providing the spark that led to the birth of an entire generation – their Beat revolution.” It has a release date of October 18th in limited theatres in NY and LA.

It has been confirmed that Daniel Radcliffe will be returning for a second season of A Young Doctor’s Notebook & Other Stories on SkyArts.  The first season will be airing on Ovation this Fall for fans in the US, we will post when a release date is available. A press release from SkyArts may be read below:

A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK & OTHER STORIES – the most successful series in the history of Sky Arts – will return for a second series as part of the Playhouse Presents strand. Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe will reprise their roles, with Hamm playing a Russian doctor during the Russian Revolution, and Radcliffe his younger self. Customers will be able to watch the new series on Sky Arts 1 HD and On Demand later in 2013.

A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK & OTHER STORIES is a comedy drama inspired by a selection of further works by the celebrated Russian writer and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov, including the semi-autobiographical story, Morphine. The series returns to the small village of Muryevo in 1918 to find the Young Doctor (Daniel Radcliffe) battling against an all-consuming morphine addiction. Under the critical gaze of his “clean” older self (Jon Hamm), the Young Doctor struggles to cope with life in the hospital, the Civil War, and the arrival of Natasha, played by fast rising newcomer, Margaret Clunie, a beautiful young aristocrat. Adam Godley will reprise his role as The Feldsher alongside Rosie Cavaliero and Vicki Pepperdine as Pelageya and Anna respectively.

Jon Hamm says: “I’m thrilled to come back to our wonderful, weird, wild world of A Young Doctor’s Notebook. Series one was an absolute blast to work on and I’m looking forward to continuing this bizarre adventure.”

Daniel Radcliffe says: “I had absolutely no hesitation in agreeing to do a second series of A Young Doctor’s Notebook. I had an incredible time working with the multi talented Jon Hamm and of course am a huge fan of Mikhail Bulgakov’s work and so was thrilled when I was told a second series had been commissioned. I am also greatly looking forward to working with our new director Robert McKillop and cannot wait to commence filming this summer.”

The 4 x 30’ series is produced by multi award-wining Big Talk Productions, in association with Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt’s Point West Pictures. It was commissioned by Lucy Lumsden and is executive produced by Kenton Allen for Big Talk Productions, Jon Hamm for Point West Pictures and Jon Mountague for Sky. The director is Robert McKillop and the producer is Clelia Mountford. The series was written by Mark Chappell, Shaun Pye and Alan Connor, based on an idea by Clelia Mountford.

A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK & OTHER STORIES marks a further development of the Playhouse Presents strand which champions innovative productions and original writing, and which underlines Sky’s promise to deliver high-quality, exclusive content to customers, supported by a commitment to increase investment in home-grown programming to £600 million by 2014, an increase of more than 50% over three years. The first series is currently available to download as a box set from Sky’s On Demand service.

James Hunt, Director, Sky Arts says, “I am absolutely thrilled to bring the most talented double act of our generation back to Sky Arts. A Young Doctor’s Notebook was the channel’s most successful programme to date and was unanimously loved by our customers. It is a perfect fit for our Playhouse Presents strand with its world class talent both on and off screen.”

Lucy Lumsden, Head of Comedy, Sky says: “We’re delighted that this supremely talented cast has been able to reunite in another dose of the darkly comic series A Young Doctor’s Notebook.”

A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK and A YOUNG DOCTOR’S NOTEBOOK & OTHER STORIES is distributed internationally by BBC Worldwide. They will be available to view in North America on the Ovation network later in 2013/14.

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Daniel Radcliffe will once again be lending his voice to a character on The Simpsons.  He will be voicing a character named Diggs. In the episode airing this season, Bart will encounter Diggs, a strange older boy with a passion for falconry, among other things. “Diggs is a combination of Holden Caulfield, Finny from A Separate Peace and the kids in Lord of the Flies — only a little more screwed up,” executive producer Al Jean tells EW.

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