The team behind the critically acclaimed film Milk is getting back together to create a miniseries for ABC chronicling the rise of the gay rights movement entitled When We Rise.
Milk director Gus Van Sant and Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will both play executive producers on an eight-hour miniseries that looks at the personal and political struggles, victories and celebrations that the LGBT community had in the final decades of the 20th century and into the new millennium. Black has written the miniseries and Van Sant will direct the first two-hour episode.
The project has been in development for more than two years and will be produced through ABC Studios. ABC has not released an airdate.
