Overview
- The Baby Reindeer breakout will portray the singer in My Mama Cass, a new feature in development.
- Novelist and screenwriter Emma Forrest is adapting Owen Elliot-Kugell’s 2024 memoir for the screenplay.
- Veritas Entertainment, led by producers Peter Jaysen and Alan Gasmer, has packaged the film, is sharing it with buyers and financiers, and has not yet attached a director.
- Press materials describe the film as a definitive Cass Elliot story focused on her life, legacy, and the mother–daughter bond rather than a Mamas & the Papas biopic.
- The film will confront the false claim that Elliot died choking on a ham sandwich, noting the official finding of a heart attack in 1974.