'Brokeback' Director Plans Another Gay-Themed Film
Lee To Shoot Film About Woodstock

POSTED: 4:33 am HST April 23, 2008
UPDATED: 7:02 am HST April 23, 2008
Ang Lee, the director of the gay cowboy romance drama "Brokeback Mountain," is reportedly going to do another film with a gay theme.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Lee and Focus Features CEO James Schamus are teaming to make a film on the gay-themed Woodstock memoir, "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life."

The film will be adapted from author Elliot Tiber's 2007 book. The Reporter said that the film focuses on the colorful life of a Greenwich Village, N.Y.-based interior designer and part-time Catskills hotel manager who was instrumental in arranging the location of the Woodstock festival in 1969.

Lee's "Brokeback Mountain" earned three Oscars in 2006, including Best Director for Lee and Best Adapted Screenplay for co-writers Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana. The film also earned Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor for the late Heath Ledger and Best Supporting Actor for Jake Gyllenhaal.

Lee and Schamus previously paired together in 1993 to make the gay-themed comedy "The Wedding Banquet."

Lee's other films include "The Ice Storm," "The Hulk" and most recently, "Lust, Caution."