Monday
08Sep2008
'Milk' Poster Builds Strong Bones
Monday, September 8, 2008 at 4:38PM
Trolling
Trailer Addict this afternoon, I spied a new
poster for
Milk, the upcoming bio-pic of the late San
Francisco politician Harvey Milk.
Milk was the first admitted homosexual elected to a
significant political post in the U.S., and he was later gunned down by a rival
named Dan White.
Sean Penn will play Milk in
Gus Van Sant's
film, with
Josh Brolin in the role of White. How Dan White received a voluntary
manslaughter conviction for this crime (actually a double murder, since he also
killed San Francisco mayor George Moscone) is beyond me.
Milk was far from perfect, though; he was a big Jim
Jones supporter, as were many of his political associates. I wonder if the
world's largest mass suicide will be mentioned in the movie. It should be.
Here's the poster for the film, which isn't quite as
compelling as
the trailer.
Milk opens on December 5th.
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