Ang Lee to Direct Woodstock Comedy
Ang Lee is set to direct a comedy based on Elliot Tiber’s memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, Concert, and a Life.
The story takes place in 1969 when Tiber, an upstate New York motel owner, went from witnessing the Stonewall Riots, regarded as a launching point for the modern gay rights movement, to helping the Woodstock Concert promoters find a venue for their show which had lost its permit in Wallkill, New York.
One man, one summer, two defining cultural moments in the history of the United States.
James Schamus will write the screenplay.
Source: Variety
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This sounds really interesting. One of my favorite Ang Lee movies of all is The Wedding Banquet. Lee can certainly handle comedy.
Of course James Schamus is writing the screenplay!
My thoughts exactly, Alison and Alexander. It would be nice to see Lee get back to something a little light-hearted after all this long string of dark themes.
The Stonewall Riots sound like an odd springboard to comedy, but then I didn’t read the book, so who knows.