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Here is the trailer for Taking Woodstock! Not much Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the trailer, but this looks funny!

Ang Lee!

And thanks to the good folks at onlocationvacations.com for the pictures.

Also, I’ve finished reading Taking Woodstock.  If you want some details on the characters, just keep reading.  They’re just some comments about the characters that have been cast and who they are in the story – no plot spoilers and just some details of the story. But if you want to know nothing about the characters or story, consider yourself warned and stop reading!

Here

I really liked this book.

The part where Elliott brings Woodstock to town is when the book really starts to get fun. I really didn’t know a lot about the history of Woodstock before this.

So

Emile Hirsch – I think I read he plays a Vietnam vet. This character isn’t in the book. My guess he’ll be one of the concert attendees who showed up in town weeks before the concert started and stayed at Elliot’s hotel.

Liev Schreiber – his character Vilma is in the book, but is a grandfather who served under General Patton in World War Two. So it looks like they made him younger. (He’s a transvestite in the book as well!)

JDM – now this is interesting. His character isn’t named (for obvious reasons) and is just mentioned in a passing reference, about 100 words in the whole book.

Here’s most of it (Elliot is gay and into some hard core S & M. His bungalow at the hotel was outfitted out as a dungeon.)

“I had other diversions, however. One of them, whom I’ll call Bill Smith, was married and co-owner of one of the largest and most exclusive hotels in the Catskills. He was gay and needed an outlet. I was the outlet. He’d come over to my place and we’d spend an hour or two in my dungeon bungalow. Every so often, he’d call to make a date.”

ETA: New pics from set – with actors

New interview with Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Shanghai and pics of Taking Woodstock set (no actors). WARNING: SPOILERS For Shanghai Read it here

Let the slash fangirls rejoice!  And how amazing is it that he’s working with Ang Lee!

Taking Woodstock’ set to start
Demetri Martin to star in Focus’s Ang Lee pic
By MICHAEL FLEMING
Focus Features will begin production late this month on "Taking Woodstock," scripted by James Schamus and to be directed by Ang Lee.

Lee’s ensemble cast includes Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber.

Pic 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 (Daily Variety, April 22).

Less than a month ago, Focus had been thinking about postponing the start of production over concerns that a possible Screen Actors Guild strike could force a shutdown later this year. But numerous studios have begun to move forward on feature starts, and it’s understood that Focus has worked out contingency plans in the event of a work stoppage.

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.

Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber’s parents, and Jonathan Groff (currently starring in the Shakespeare in the Park production of "Hair" in Gotham) 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.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan 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.

Focus Features CEO Schamus will produce with Lee. Celia Costas ("Angels in America") is executive producer.

FYI – Here’s Demetri Martin’s website if you want to check him out. You may know him as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

Here’s an Amazon link to the book.

ETA: Elliot Tiber’s website

Source: Variety