Ang Lee making gay Woodstock movie

[canis_lupus]

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee is returning to the gay genre with a movie revolving around the Woodstock music festival.

"Taking Woodstock" centers on the colorful life of a Greenwich Village-based interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager who headed the Bethel, N.Y., Chamber of Commerce. He issued the permit for the legendary 1969 concert on his neighbor Max Yasgur's farm.

It is based on Elliot Tiber's 2007 memoir "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life," which he wrote with Tom Monte.

The project is set up at Focus Features, and will be adapted by the studio's CEO, James Schamus. Lee and Schamus' most recent collaboration was Focus' Chinese-language drama "Lust, Caution," which earned $66 million worldwide.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080422/film_nm/anglee_dc_1

[angstlessk]

1. wow..chamber of commerce, bet you could not find one today who would allow

all them hippies anywhere near their town/city/municipality!!

[mitchtv]

5. well Coachella/ Indio

as a reasonable fecsimile this weekend. (Of course the youth of today are not like those hippies)

[xchrom]

2. recommend!

:applause:

[terrya]

3. Yet one more reason to appreciate Ang Lee

Ang Lee is quite a gay friendly director. Besides this upcoming film and "Brokeback", he also directed "The Wedding Banquet" about a gay Taiwanese man who's parents comes to the United States, after telling the parents that he was getting married to a woman. "The Wedding Banquet" is a marvelous film.

[Zuiderelle]

4. The Wedding Banquet is a wonderful film

I had forgotten he did that.