Josh Brolin stops chasing Frank Lucas, and kills HARVEY MILK!

by Matt Holmes

Variety today have confirmed news we were semi-expecting. Matt Damon has been unable to commit to Gus Van Sant's film on the death of Gay Rights activist Harvey Milk because he is out shooting a new Iraq thriller with Paul Greengrass, so Josh Brolin has stepped into his shoes. Brolin will play Dan White, the San Francisco county supervisor who killed Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1978. Also on board are SPIDER-MAN's James Franco (as Milk's lover and campaign manager) and Emile Hirsch as fellow gay rights activist Cleve Jones. Harvey Milk as we already know will be played by Sean Penn, with filming to take place in San Francisco next month. Van Sant's film is attracting some great names and I really hope it fulfills the promise that this important historic event has cinematically and Penn as Milk was an inspired choice.

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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.