Remember Ang Lee’s “gay Woodstock” movie (“Taking Woodstock” that was reported a few months ago?
Well, it’s starting to coalesce. Young (and very droll and excellent) comedian Demetri Martin (“The Daily Show With Jon Stewart”) has already signed on to play an aspiring interior designer and Variety reports that the cast has been rounded out by Emile Hirsch, Liev Schrieber and Imelda Staunton (Dolores Umbridge from the Harry Potter” movies among many British kitchen-sink dramas)
“In summer 1969, [Martin] finds 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 Martin’s parents, Hirsch play a Vietnam vet, Schreiber will likely tackle the role of a transvetite (!) and Jeffrey Dean Morgan from “Watchmen” (The Comedian) will play a closeted man who has an affair with the young Martin. Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan will play a hippie couple. Dan Fogler
Focus Features begins production next month.