During the past years many biographical movies about famous musicians were released, like for example films about Queen, Mötley Crüe, and Elton John. The most recent one is “A Complete Unknown”, about Bob Dylan’s early career and the people involved in this movie are planning to make biographical movies about the Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett and the Mamas & The Papas late singer Cass Elliot.
In an interview with The Town with Matthew Belloni (Transcribed by Classic Rock), the producer Peter Jaysen talked about the possibility of these new biographical movies about Barrett and Elliot.
Syd Barrett and Cass Elliot biographical movies are being planned
“Due to our involvement with Bob doing A Complete Unknown, we’ve been fortunate enough that right now we’re working on, with Wash Westmoreland, the great writer-director, a Syd Barrett movie, one of the founders of Pink Floyd.”
“We have had multiple Zooms with the estate of Mama Cass Elliot and met with her daughter, Owen, and are close to acquiring the rights to her book, My Mama Cass,” the producer Peter Jaysen said.
The late singer, guitarist and songwriter Syd Barrett helped to form Pink Floyd in 1965 and due to his declining mental state after years of drug abuse and a possible undiagnosed schizophrenia, the band decided to invite David Gilmour to join the band. He was supposed to be the one who would back up Syd in case he had erratic behavior when playing live, not singing or not playing guitar parts properly. However, Syd’s condition got worse and he was eventually fired from the band.
Cass Elliot was one of the co-founders of the influential American group Mamas and the Papas. She was the first member of the group who passed away. She sadly died in 1974 at the age of 32.
