Baby Reindeer phenom Jessica Gunning is set to take the lead in a new biopic about The Mamas and Papas singer Cass Elliot. The movie will be based on the memoir of Elliot’s son, Owen Elliot-Kugell, called My Mama, Cass, and will set out to dispel the rumor that she died choking on a ham sandwich. Press material states it is “not a Mamas & the Papas biopic,” and will focus on Cass, who died in her sleep in 1974 in London at the age of 32, her cause of death ruled as a heart attack. In the years before, the “California Dreamin’” singer’s home in Laurel Canyon, California, became a hub for the talented and beautiful in the prelude to the Summer of Love, welcoming guests from Joni Mitchell to Eric Clapton. The biopic hasn’t yet got a director, although the screenplay is being written by Emma Forrest and is planned to use Cass’s voice in songs. Veritas Entertainment, which produced Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, will produce. Gunning, who had previously starred on the Outlaws, shot to fame for her portrayal of Martha Scott, a woman obsessed with a struggling comedian, in Baby Reindeer.
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