#7. Milk
Director: Gus Van Sant
Writers: Dustin Lance Black
Producers: Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks and Michael London
Distributor: Focus Features
The Gist: Written by Dustin Lance Black, this is about the San Francisco politician Harvey Milk (Penn) slained by Dan White (Josh Brolin) the rival politician and supervisor who shot Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone to death at City Hall. Hirsch has been cast as gay rights activist Cleve Jones, an intern and close ally of Milk’s, who went on to found the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. James Franco will play Scott Smith, Milk’s lover and campaign manager.
Fact: Bryan Singer had a competing project The Mayor of Castro Street – now pretty much dead in the water.
See It: Pitching itself as a film by the director of Good Will Hunting, the trailer tries to reach out to the masses — but the colors and framing of some of the sequences and an actor named Sean Penn mean this is buzzworth enough to consider as a top tier night at the movies.
Release Date/Status?: This receives a November 26th release.
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