Milk ─ The Shooting Script

Official screenplay book for the new Focus Features film directed by Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho), starring Academy Awardr winner Sean Penn (Mystic River, Dead Man Walking) as gay-rights icon Harvey Milk.
His life changed history. His courage changed lives. In 1977, Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, becoming the first openly gay man to be voted into major public office in America. His victory was not just a victory for gay rights; he forged coalitions across the political spectrum. From senior citizens to union workers, Harvey Milk changed the very nature of what it means to be a fighter for human rights and became, before his untimely death in 1978, a hero for all Americans.
Academy Award winner Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk, with Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones, Josh Brolin as Dan White, Diego Luna as Jack Lira, and James Franco as Scott Smith, and under the direction of Academy Awardr nominee Gus Van Sant, filmed on location in San Francisco, from an original screenplay by Dustin Lance Black.
In addition to the complete screenplay, Milk: The Shooting Script includes:
* an introduction by director Gus Van Sant
* scene notes by Dustin Lance Black
* an exclusive conversation with Lance Black, Gus Van Sant, and activist Cleve Jones, who was mentored by Harvey Milk
* a color photo section
* and the complete cast and crew credits.

Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black worked on the acclaimed television series Big Love as a writer and producer for three seasons.

Director Gus Van Sant is well known for such movies as Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, To Die For, Good Will Hunting (for which he received an Academy Award nomination), and Finding Forrester.