Cinema Science

Emile Hirsch and Josh Brolin are aligning themselves with yet another prestige project. The two, who are currently in Into the Wild and No Country for Old Men, are in negotiations for Milk, the Gus Van Sant biopic starring Sean Penn as Harvey Milk, the former San Francisco city supervisor and gay-rights activist . Brolin is in talks to play Dan White, the elected official who assassinated Milk in 1978, while Hirsch is eyeing the role of street hustler-turned-Milk aide, Cleve Jones. James Franco will play Milk's longtime lover, Scott Smith.