Ang Lee will next direct an adaptation of writer Elliot Tiber’s memior, Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life for Focus Features, with the company’s co-president and longtime Lee collaborator, James Schamus, on board to write and produce. Like the book, Woodstock will not be the main focus of the adaptation; instead it will tell the tale of Tiber’s involvement in organizing the 1969 concert, his stay at his parents’ eccentric Catskills motel, encounters with personalities like Truman Capote and Mark Rothko and his struggles with being a closeted homosexual during that mythical Age of Aquarius.
The movie is described by Variety as a comedy, [...]