While we usually aren't too concerned about a production start in a single project, there is enough talent around Taking Woodstock to draw notice.
Taking Woodstock Production Start
Directed by Ang Lee off a script by James Schamus, Taking Woodstock is the adaptation of the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who played a role in helping the historic 1969 music fest unfold on his neighbor's farm.
The film features an ensemble cast that includes Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber.
Though Focus Features originally planned on stalling the production start with concerns of an upcoming SAG strike, they, like numerous other studios, have decided to push forward anyway.
Demetri Martin 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 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.
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