First Look: MILK

By Matt Holmes / June 25, 2011

Gus Van Sant's biopic of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official to have found himself in office in the U.S. is well underway with filming right now in San Fransisco and /Film have the first look at star Sean Penn in the lead role. Josh Brolin is to co-star as Dan White (Milk's political opposition), Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones (fellow gay rights activist) and James Franco as Scott Smith (Milk's lover and campaign manager) in the political drama due out next year.

Does it make me sick to enjoy assassination movies? Actually while I'm on the subject, if you haven't seen Penn in THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON then you should do yourself a favour and check it out. Forget his Oscar for MYSTIC RIVER, that's his best role of recent years.