One of many folks behind the model new Bob Dylan biopic A Full Unknown is engaged on a film about Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett.
Talking on the podcast The City With Matthew Belloni, producer Peter Jaysen – whose firm, Veritas Leisure, was concerned in securing the rights to Dylan’s musical archive and life story for the movie – revealed that each Barrett and late The Mamas & The Papas singer Cass Elliot are in line for the large display therapy.
“As a result of our involvement with Bob doing A Full Unknown, we’ve been lucky sufficient that proper now we’re engaged on, with Wash Westmoreland, the good writer-director, a Syd Barrett film, one of many founders of Pink Floyd.
Jaysen added: “We’ve got had a number of Zooms with the property of Mama Cass Elliot and met along with her daughter, Owen, and are near buying the rights to her ebook, My Mama Cass.”
Whereas he didn’t give particular particulars or launch dates for both venture, each Barrett and Elliott can be ripe for the biopic therapy. Barrett based Pink Floyd 1965, earlier than drug and psychological well being points compelled him to go away the band and finally reside out of the highlight in Cambridge till his loss of life in 2006. Elliot, aka Mama Cass, rose to fame as one quarter of The Mamas & The Papas, however died in 1974 on the age of 32.
A Full Unknown opened within the US on Christmas Day to constructive opinions, with star Timothée Chalamet reportedly in competition for an Oscar for his portrayal of Dylan. Chalamet apparently spent 5 years coaching himself to sing like Dylan for the film.
The true Dylan has given the film his blessing, posting on X: “There’s a film about me opening quickly known as A Full Unknown (what a title!). Timothee Chalamet is starring within the lead function. Timmy’s a superb actor so I’m positive he’s going to be utterly plausible as me. Or a youthful me. Or another me. The movie’s taken from Elijah Wald’s Dylan Goes Electrical – a ebook that got here out in 2015. It’s a improbable retelling of occasions from the early ‘60s that led as much as the fiasco at Newport. After you’ve seen the film learn the ebook.”
A Full Unknown is only one of a number of music biopics to reach within the subsequent couple of years, together with Bruce Springsteen film Ship Me, which stars The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen and focuses on the making of his 1982 album Nebraska, and Sam Mendes’ untitled four-part biopic of The Beatles, with a separate film devoted to every member.
A Full Unknown is in US cinemas now. It opens within the UK on January 17.
