Gus Van Sant is boarding ABC’s gay rights movement miniseries “When We Rise” as an exec producer and director, Variety has learned. He will direct the first two-hour episode.
First announced in summer 2013, “When We Rise” has been in development for two and a half years. With Van Sant on board, the project will soon go into production.
Van Sant’s appointment marks a reunion between the “Milk” director and Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for writing the screenplay to the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic. Black is writing and exec producing “When We Rise” for ABC.
Along with Van Sant and Black, Laurence Marks and Bruce Cohen, who was also a producer on “Milk,” will serve as exec producers on the eight-hour miniseries, which hails from ABC Studios.
“When We Rise”chronicles the personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of Lgbt men and
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First announced in summer 2013, “When We Rise” has been in development for two and a half years. With Van Sant on board, the project will soon go into production.
Van Sant’s appointment marks a reunion between the “Milk” director and Dustin Lance Black, who won an Oscar for writing the screenplay to the 2008 Harvey Milk biopic. Black is writing and exec producing “When We Rise” for ABC.
Along with Van Sant and Black, Laurence Marks and Bruce Cohen, who was also a producer on “Milk,” will serve as exec producers on the eight-hour miniseries, which hails from ABC Studios.
“When We Rise”chronicles the personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of Lgbt men and