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Taiwan born director Ang Lee, known for such box office hits as Lust Caution and Brokeback Mountain is filming a comedy about Woodstock ahead of the landmark countercultural event’s 40 th anniversary, his spokesman said.

Taking Woodstock is based on a book by the man who granted the original for the 1969 event, which turned into a hippie dominated music festival that drew half a million fans.

Ang Lee is all set to shoot the film for Focus Features near Woodstock location near upstate New York with an eye toward releasing it next year, spokesman David Lee said.

He was declined to elaborate on the plot the budget or the director’s reasons for getting involved. “I’m not in a position to discuss details of the film,” he said.

The film follows the book “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life,” by Elliot Tiber, who was instrumental in bringing the controversial concert of unprecedented scale to his region.

Lee found the movie theme when he happened to meet Tiber backstage before a televised book promotion in San Francisco said Dan Bloom, a Taiwan based writer who has interviewed sources close to the film.

“A lot of people are going to wonder how a guy born in Taiwan can do this,” Bloom said. “Ang Lee doesn’t choose his movies. His movies choose him.”

Broadly speaking, Bloom said, “Taking Woodstock is about sizing up one’s own life and controlling one’s own destiny.

Ang Lee is not a stranger to varied themes like the various symbols of Americana like cowboys, comic books, Chinese culture, British culture and idiosyncratic families. He has probably the most envious filmography in the history of cinema. His work really speaks of what approach he might even takes with this film.