This is kinda cool. And yeah, I’m biased! Shut up! Harvey Milk was a gay rights activist, and one of the first openly gay guys to hold political office in San Francisco. He was a big deal. A big enough deal to get assassinated. I just totally spoilered the ending. And Sean Penn is playing him! Sean’s wacky, but he’s a helluva actor. Didn’t you see “Shanghai Surprise”?

Sean Penn is attached to play gay ’70s San Franciso politician Harvey Milk, and Matt Damon his assassin in a long-gestating project from director Gus Van Sant.

Once a distribution deal is finalized, Van Sant hopes to begin production on the as-yet-untitled feature in San Francisco as early as December. The uncertain start date may affect Damon’s participation as Milk’s killer, Dan White.

There might be a turf war over this deal, as gay “X-Men” director Bryan Singer is readying his own version of Milk’s story. So it’s going to be like when there was those two volcano movies. One with Linda Hamilton and Pierce Brosnan in a truck outrunning pyroclastic clouds and one where Anne Heche lost her lesbian lover to a crevasse! Drama! Both sucked but in different ways. Hopefully, both these flicks will be good…someone tells me “Infamous” is just as good as Phillip Seymour Hoffman in “Capote” and it’s the same story. We can all live together in gracious harmony and so can our film projects! Anyway, I’m excited to see Sean Penn putt from the rough.

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