Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant move forward with Milk

Gus Van Sant’s biopic Milk has been greenlit by Focus with Sean Penn set to star as the late gay-rights activist Harvey Milk. Sean Penn - 2nd Rome Film Festival - Into The Wild - Photocall - Auditorium Parco della Musica - Rome, Italy © Insidefoto / PR Photos

Sean Penn - 2nd Rome Film Festival - Into The Wild - Photocall - Auditorium Parco della Musica - Rome, Italy © Insidefoto / PR PhotosVariety reports the film will be co-financed by Groundswell Prods. with shooting scheduled to begin in January. The film will beat Focus’ The Mayor of Castro Street to production due to the writer’s strike throwing that project into limbo.Milk is scheduled to be shot in San Francisco, and will follow Milk’s political rise as the first openly gay man elected to office, in 1977, to the time he was shot to death (along with Mayor George Moscone) by city supervisor Dan White.

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US Release: 2008-11-26
UK Release: 2009-01-23

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