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Van Sant closing in on Milk tale


September 10, 2007 Penn is attached to play Milk and Damon is attached to play Milk's killer, Dan White, in the director's long-gestating Milk biopic. The filmmakers are now in talks with a leading specialty division to launch the project. It's the latest chapter in a long-running race to film the biopic of the first openly gay prominent elected official, which has pitted Van Sant's project against another from fellow openly gay director Bryan Singer.

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