Ian Johnson, Out Now
November 19, 2007
TOPICS: Gay and lesbian community. Harvey Milk. Sean Penn. Gus Van Sant to direct new bio-pic film Milk. New movie bio-pic to tell the story of 1970s gay hero, San Francisco City Supervisor. Harvey Milk to be played by Sean Penn.
Gay Market News has discussed before the seminal role of US activist and political leader, Harvey Milk in the growth of the US gay rights equality movement.
Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of City Supervisors in the 1970s, but was assassinated -- along with San Francisco Mayor George Moscone -- by fellow City Supervisor and Milk adversary, Supervisor Dan White.
Academy Award-nominated director Gus Van Sant will commence production in January on the biographical drama Milk, to star Academy Award winner Sean Penn as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk.
Harvey Milk (1930-1978) was an activist and politician, and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in America; in 1977, he was voted to the city supervisors' board of San Francisco.
The life of Harvey Milk, and his immense significance to the development of an out and proud lesbian and gay community in the US, has long been known to members of the gay community.
The new film starring Sean Penn will likely bring the story of Harvey Milk to a much wider mainstream audience.
It was thirty years ago now, during 1978, when both he and the city's mayor George Moscone were shot and killed inside City Hall by another city supervisor, Dan White.
Harvey Milk was previously the subject of the Academy Award-winning documentary feature The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), directed by Rob Epstein and produced by Richard Schmiechen. Milk will be the first non-documentary feature to explore the man's life and career.
Gus Van Sant has directed such films as Drugstore Cowboy (which won Best Film and Best Director from the National Society of Film Critics), My Own Private Idaho (which earned him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screenplay), To Die For (for which Nicole Kidman won a Golden Globe Award), and Good Will Hunting (for which he received a Best Director Oscar nomination).
The new film Milk is being released by Focus Features which is part of NBC Universal.
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