{"id":12094,"date":"2024-12-29T11:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2024-12-29T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-29T15:30:12","slug":"syd-barrett-biopic-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2024\/12\/syd-barrett-biopic-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Syd Barrett biopic coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12095\" src=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/westmoreland.jpg\" alt=\"Wash Westmoreland\" width=\"346\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/westmoreland.jpg 346w, https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/westmoreland-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 346px) 100vw, 346px\" \/>The company behind the recent <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong> biopic &#8220;A Complete Unknown&#8221; are said to be working on a film about <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peter Jaysen<\/strong>, owner of <strong>Veritas Entertainment<\/strong> and a producer on the Dylan film, revealed on the podcast &#8220;The Town With <strong>Matthew Belloni<\/strong>&#8221; the company is now working on a film focused on Barrett.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wash Westmoreland<\/strong> (pictured) is attached to the project, according to Jaysen. Westmoreland is a British writer\/director known for &#8220;Still Alice&#8221; (2014), which won a number of awards, including the Best Actress Oscar for <strong>Julianne Moore<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Jaysen didn&#8217;t give a timeline for the film&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned he was planning a film about the <strong>Cass Elliot<\/strong> of the <strong>Mamas and the Papas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company behind the recent Bob Dylan biopic &#8220;A Complete Unknown&#8221; are said to be working on a film about Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett. Peter Jaysen, owner of Veritas Entertainment and a producer on the Dylan film, revealed on the podcast &#8220;The Town With Matthew Belloni&#8221; the company is now working on a film [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-syd-barrett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12097,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions\/12097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}