Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee, 2009)

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Antoine Doinel · #1 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 7:42 pm

Lee's new film about the infamous festival needs a few extra hippies.

Soothsayer · #2 Post by **Soothsayer** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 8:32 pm

So there's more reduntant treading of burkenstock'd feet, coming on the 10 year anniversary of another Woodstock event which deserves the title of Ang Lee's upcoming work, sooo much more?

I can just see David Crosby getting his calculator out now for possible royalties...

Hey Ang, screw the hippies, go look for some frat boys!

Antoine Doinel · #3 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:57 pm

More hippies wanted.

#4 Post by **Jeff** » Wed Aug 06, 2008 6:55 am

Have you been thinking that Ang Lee should make a Woodstock movie starring The Daily Show's Demetri Martin? Well here you go:

Coming Soon wrote:Focus Features will begin production late this month on Taking Woodstock, written by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee.

The film 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.

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.

Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents, and Jonathan Groff will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang; Emile Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play Yasgur, and Liev Schreiber (X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is in talks to play a transvestite named Vilma.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) is set as a closeted married man having an affair with Tiber, while Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan play a hippie couple attending the concert. Dan Fogler will play a local theater troupe head, and Mamie Gummer will play Lang's assistant.

Antoine Doinel · #5 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:37 pm

Producer James Schamus talks about the film and casting Demetri Martin after seeing clips of him on YouTube.

#6 Post by **Jeff** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:08 am

Demetri Martin and Emile Hirsch

King Prendergast · #7 Post by **King Prendergast** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:11 pm

Demetri Martin sucks, when are we gonna see Neil Hamburger in a major motion picture?

flyonthewall2983 · #8 Post by **flyonthewall2983** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 3:43 pm

This is a non-issue, but I really hope Ang doesn't show the musicians on stage playing current modern musical equipment.

#9 Post by **Jeff** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:17 pm

trailer

Antoine Doinel · #10 Post by **Antoine Doinel** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 9:16 pm

That looks pretty awful.

oldsheperd · #11 Post by **oldsheperd** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:28 pm

Heheh, Neil Hamburger!

The sketch with the three great minds you could have dinner with from Important Things was pretty fricking hilarious!

Fiery Angel · #12 Post by **Fiery Angel** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:23 am

Does anyone know why this didn't open this past weekend on the actual 40th anniversary, instead of next week?

aox · #13 Post by **aox** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:05 pm

Fiery Angel wrote:Does anyone know why this didn't open this past weekend on the actual 40th anniversary, instead of next week?

Because hippies don't abide by your draconian rules and tyrannical calendars. They are free people that do what they want when they want. Live in the now man.

tavernier · #14 Post by **tavernier** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:06 pm

So how about not opening it at all?

#15 Post by **domino harvey** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 4:12 pm

tavernier wrote:So how about not opening it at all?

It would have made about as much money either way

oldsheperd · #16 Post by **oldsheperd** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:00 pm

I don't know what is so great about Woodstock. I once went to a Santana concert and stood in a muddy field surrounded by a bunch of drunk and stoned people. It wasn't some amazing experience.
Ugh! The whole Summer of Love/Woodstock/Hippie myth is the most overblown, over-rated thing ever.
Like I told my Pops: "I'll take Altamont over Woodstock anyday!"
At least Altamont was had all the gloss and fake peace garbage stripped away from it and showed what most hippies for what they truly were: a bunch of drugged-out, over-sexed, lazy, classless, self-obssessed trust fund kids.
I don't want to cast too many aspersions though.

#17 Post by **cdnchris** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:41 pm

"Yeah, hippies and terrorists are the same thing."

Murdoch · #18 Post by **Murdoch** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:45 pm

cdnchris wrote:"Yeah, hippies and terrorists are the same thing."

aox · #19 Post by **aox** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:46 pm

oldsheperd wrote:I don't know what is so great about Woodstock. I once went to a Santana concert and stood in a muddy field surrounded by a bunch of drunk and stoned people. It wasn't some amazing experience.
Ugh! The whole Summer of Love/Woodstock/Hippie myth is the most overblown, over-rated thing ever.
Like I told my Pops: "I'll take Altamont over Woodstock anyday!"
At least Altamont was had all the gloss and fake peace garbage stripped away from it and showed what most hippies for what they truly were: a bunch of drugged-out, over-sexed, lazy, classless, self-obssessed trust fund kids.
I don't want to cast too many aspersions though.

You sound miserable.

oldsheperd · #20 Post by **oldsheperd** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:02 pm

I'm only miserable when I see a pachuli-scented hippie. To quote Patton Oswalt pachuli smells like "dirt that's been f#cked by a hobo."
And to quote Stiv Bators, "I want to punch the next hippie I see."
Hippies turned on, tuned in and dropped out in the 60s then turned on, tuned in and voted for Reagan and for the past 20 years I've been oversaturated with how great the hippies were and how they changed America. They didn't do shite.
I think my Dad was the only one who voted for Carter in 1980 and he wasn't a hippie.

Michael Kerpan · #21 Post by **Michael Kerpan** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:23 pm

oldsheperd wrote:I'm only miserable when I see a pachuli-scented hippie. To quote Patton Oswalt pachuli smells like "dirt that's been f#cked by a hobo."
And to quote Stiv Bators, "I want to punch the next hippie I see."
Hippies turned on, tuned in and dropped out in the 60s then turned on, tuned in and voted for Reagan and for the past 20 years I've been oversaturated with how great the hippies were and how they changed America. They didn't do shite.
I think my Dad was the only one who voted for Carter in 1980 and he wasn't a hippie.

I think you don't have a f*ing clue.

Fiery Angel · #22 Post by **Fiery Angel** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:24 pm

I thought you didn't like Mamet's dialogue!

Michael Kerpan · #23 Post by **Michael Kerpan** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:25 pm

Fiery Angel wrote:I thought you didn't like Mamet's dialogue!

Yeah, but I lived in Chicago for almost 16 years....

Fiery Angel · #24 Post by **Fiery Angel** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:27 pm

You're forgiven.

oldsheperd · #25 Post by **oldsheperd** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:28 pm

You're right Michael, I don't have a clue, but that's besides the point.

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