Sean Penn stars as Harvey Milk in the upcoming drama, Milk.

The film is generation significant Oscar buzz. Watch the trailer now:

While movie goers can hardly wait for Emile Hirsch's next film, a rebooting of the Speed Racer cartoon, the young actor is equally excited for a flick that possess a few less special effects.

"I just did this film called Milk with Sean Penn and Gus Van Sant about Harvey Milk," Hirsch recently told MTV, providing early details on what many are already calling this year's Oscar movie to beat. "I think it's going to be a really good film."

In the the current, politically charged climate, Milk may receive extra attention when it comes out in November.

"Not many people know the story yet," said Hirsch, who plays real-life gay activist Cleve Jones, of of California's first openly gay elected official.

"Milk represented change for a lot of people, and was a catalyst to that," Hirsch concluded "And his eventual assassination similarly mirrored Martin Luther King."

Here is the first photo of Sean Penn from the upcoming Gus Van Sant flick, Milk.

Penn portrays Harvey Milk in the biopic; back in 1977, he became California's first openly gay official when he was voted to the city supervisor's board of San Francisco.

Also starring in the film are Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Victor Garber, Denis O'Hare.