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Dustin Lance Black Writes Script for Film about Harvey Milk “Milk” scheduled to be released in November 2008 April 2008 Dustin Lance Black is the talented filmmaker and writer behind the script of Milk, the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk. Lance Black grew up in San Antonio, Texas, surrounded by military bases. “I had my first crushes on a boy neighbor when I was like six, seven. I knew what was going on, I knew I liked him, but what Texas did and what the culture of growing up Mormon, growing up military [reinforced], was, the very second thought I had, ‘I really like that boy, and it’s not just as a friend,’ the very second thought was, ‘I’m sick, I’m wrong, I’m going to hell. And if I ever admit it, I’ll be hurt, and I’ll be brought down.’” Black eventually embraced his homosexuality and, as a gay man coming from a Mormon background, became one of the staff writers for the HBO series Big Love, which is set in Salt Lake City and explores the life of a Mormon polygamous family. In the 1990s Black first saw Rob Epstein’s Oscar-winning documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk. “In college, when I first saw a copy of the documentary, I remember just breaking down into tears. I thought, ‘I just want to do something with this, why hasn’t someone done something with this?’” Milk is currently in post-production and is scheduled to be released in November 2008. |
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