'Taking Woodstock' set to start (Barf alert - another baby boomers are great movie)

Variety ^ | Aug. 5, 2008 | Michael Fleming

[Publius804]

'Taking Woodstock' set to start

Emile Hirsch, Demetri Martin to star in Ang Lee pic

By MICHAEL FLEMING

Focus Features will begin production late this month on "Taking Woodstock," scripted by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee.

Lee's ensemble cast includes Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber.

Pic is an adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm (Daily Variety, April 22).

Less than a month ago, Focus had been thinking about postponing the start of production over concerns that a possible Screen Actors Guild strike could force a shutdown later this year. But numerous studios have begun to move forward on feature starts, and it's understood that Focus has worked out contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage.

Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart") had already been set to play Tiber, an aspiring interior designer in Greenwich Village obliged to run the family business, a Catskills motel. In summer 1969, he found himself at the center of a generation-defining experience when he volunteered the motel to be the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur, made his farm available for the event.

Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents, and Jonathan Groff (currently starring in the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Hair" in Gotham) will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang; Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play Yasgur, and Schreiber is in talks to play a transvestite named Vilma.

[GSWarrior]

That was the Rolling Stones Altamont Concert in California on December 6, 1969.

The death of the '60s.

[MrLee]

Yeah, pretty much.

[weegee]

There were bad vibes at concerts and in the “scene” before Altamont.

To some, the sixties ended with the resignation of Nixon.

[dennisw]

I heard about Woodstock--- 
Loads of copycats that same year
I made it to this event--->>>
Doors and Flying Burrito Brothers stood out. The FBB started with Christine's Tune

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[SupplySider]

There were much better 60s rock concert festivals than Woodstock.

I went to Woodstock and loved it, but musically I thought the Atlantic City Pop Festival, though it never gets mentioned, was better. Zappa did a great set there, just to name one of the highlights.

All the Woodstock Nation moment of a generation stuff looks awfully silly now. Even the size of the crowd was no big deal by world standards.

[Alouette]

The “Greatest Generation” who lived through the Depression and WW2, raised a generation of pampered spoiled brats.