The story behind the 1969 Woodstock concert is set to be told in a new Hollywood film.

Taking Woodstock is directed by Ang Lee, who made Brokeback Mountain, Hulk and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

It is released in the UK on October 30.

Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco.

When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel.

Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbour’s farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever.