Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreiber have all signed on to be a part of the new Focus Features film Taking Woodstock, which Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) will direct. 

The film is an adaptation of the memoir of Eliot Tiber, who helped organize the historic 1969 music festival on his neighbor's farm. Demetri Martin ("The Daily Show With Jon Stewart") will play Tiber, a Greenwich Village interior designer who is duty-bound to run the family business, a Catskills motel, in the summer of 1969.  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, he became a part of history.

Hirsch will play a recently returned Vietnam vet, Eugene Levy will play Yasgur, and Schreiber is about to sign on to play a transvestite named Vilma. Staunton and Henry Goodman will play Tiber's parents, and Jonathan Groff will play Woodstock organizer Michael Lang. Mamie Gummer (Meryl Streep’s daughter) will play Lang’s assistant. Jeffrey Dean Morgan will play a married man secretly having an affair with Tiber, and Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan will be a hippie couple at the concert. Dan Fogler plays the head of a local theater troupe.