Ang Lee Visits Woodstock

Maybe this is old news, but in preparation for this week’s Movie Club pocast focussing on Ang Lee’s The Ice Storm, I happened across this little story on Lee’s next project: Taking Woodstock.

Apparently quite a popular novel, “Taking Woodstock: a True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life” is the memoir of author Elliot Tiber; a closet gay man who works as a hotel manager/interior designer and his role of inadvertently setting in motion events that causes the greatest musical festival of all time to come to fruition.

I’m not a huge Ang Lee fan. I like this and I like that, but then there’re a few clunkers in the filmography as well. A “hit or miss” director for me. Despite what I may think of any one of his particular films, I respect the man greatly for trying different things and crossing genre lines - something not many directors are willing to do. I like directors (and actors or all artists) who take chances and challenge themselves. Retelling the Woodstock story would certainly qualify as something new for Ang Lee.

According to IMDb, this is still in pre-production, but we can look forward to this sometime in 2009.