Duo takes 'Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test'

October 28, 2008 Fox Searchlight has picked up "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," a project which reunites the "Milk" team of director Gus Van Sant and writer Dustin Lance Black. "Kool-Aid" is Wolfe's account of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey and a group dubbed the Merry Pranksters as they drive across the country in a DayGlo-painted school bus dubbed Furthur, reaching personal and collective revelations through the use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs. "Milk," which stars Sean Penn, Josh Brolin and Emile Hirsch, already is generating advance awards buzz for its telling of California's first openly gay elected official, San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk.

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