A trailer has arrived for Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock, the adaptation of the memoir Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life
by Elliot Tiber, with Tom Monte.
Taking Woodstock tells the story of Tiber, the gay man who helped facilitate Woodstock, providing the permit that made the Festival
possible, as well as the eventual location on his milkman Max Yasgur's
farm.
The film stars Demetri Martin as Tiber, Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman play Tiber's parents,
Jonathan Groff plays Woodstock organizer Michael
Lang; Emile Hirsch plays a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene
Levy plays Yasgur, and Liev Schreiber plays a
transvestite named Vilma. Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays a closeted
married man having an affair with Tiber, and Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan
play a hippie couple attending the concert.
Emile Hirsch talked about the mudslide scene (below) last year, to EW: "The mud's pretty cold. It's later in the year than it was during
Woodstock. We were all shivering, and we had these silver-foil space
blankets that miraculously keep you really warm...I did a Superman
slide down a hill, and started turning on my back. I was covered in
mud. I think there was pig crap mixed in, because we all smelled like
crap."
Check out the trailer AFTER THE JUMP, which Demitri Martin introduces in his trademark drawing style...
Previously...
Emile Hirsch on His Piggy Woodstock Experience [tr]
First Look: Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock [tr]
Demetri Martin to Star in Ang Lee Film About Gay Woodstock Figure [tr]
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