Peter Jaysen owns the company, Veritas Entertainment, that was involved in securing the rights to Dylan’s musical archive and life story for the Timothée Chalamet-starring biopic. In an appearance on the The Town With Matthew Belloni, he revealed that more big-name projects were in motion.
“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,” he confirmed.
“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.”
Jaysen didn’t mention release dates for either biopic nor give any timelines for their production. Barrett founded Pink Floyd in 1965 as their frontman and principal songwriter before leaving in 1968 over issues with his drug use and mental health. He spent the rest of his life out of the spotlight in Cambridge until he passed away in 2006.
