Regina Hall Joins Dwayne Johnson In Safdie's 'Lizard Music'
Get the Culture newsletter
Daily culture — film, music, books, the trends and ideas worth your attention. Free.
- Regina Hall joins Dwayne Johnson in Benny Safdie's live-action/CGI hybrid film Lizard Music, set up at Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists, with Hall playing The Chicken Man's friend and co-worker.
- Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker round out the ensemble cast, with Johnson also serving as a producer alongside UA's Scott Stuber, Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions and David Koplan.
- The film adapts Daniel Pinkwater's novel of the same name, following a boy who discovers a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music and befriends Johnson's eccentric 'Chicken Man' and his 111-year-old chicken Claudia.
- Hall recently earned strong reviews for Paul Thomas Anderson's Oscar-winning One Battle After Another opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.
- Hall's Peacock series The Five-Star Weekend became Peacock's top scripted title of all time, surpassing 1 billion viewing minutes in its first week after premiering July 9.
- Hall reprised her role as Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie 6, the number-one R-rated box-office hit of the year, and is set for Judgment Day with Will Ferrell and Netflix's Rabbit, Rabbit opposite Adam Driver.
- Safdie wrote the script, marking another solo directing credit for the filmmaker following his split directing work with brother Josh Safdie.
Why it matters: The casting deepens Hall's extraordinary run — PTA's Oscar winner, Peacock's biggest scripted launch ever (1 billion+ viewing minutes in week one), and the year's #1 R-rated box-office hit with *Scary Movie 6* — while giving Safdie and Johnson a high-profile ensemble vehicle backed by Amazon MGM and United Artists.
