Raye to Compose Music for Safdie’s Lizard Music — SkimNews
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- Raye joined Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music, taking a voice role and creating original music for the live-action/CGI film.
- Benny Safdie wrote the screenplay for the project, which adapts Daniel Pinkwater’s 1976 novel of the same name.
- Leber discovers a late-night broadcast of lizards playing unearthly music, then joins the Chicken Man and his confidante Claudia, an octogenarian chicken, to search the universe for answers.
- Dwayne Johnson stars and produces, joined by Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Arya Parvathi, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams, David Krumholtz and Andrew Dice Clay.
- Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt of UA, Benny Safdie of Out for the Count Productions, Dwayne Johnson of Seven Bucks Productions and David Koplan of Magnetic Fields Entertainment are attached as producers.
- Lizard Music has a theatrical release date of Dec. 25, 2027.
Why it matters: The Dec. 25, 2027 film now includes both a voice performance and original composition from Raye, giving producers Scott Stuber, Nick Nesbitt and Dwayne Johnson two creative contributions from one artist. Safdie’s adaptation also retains Pinkwater’s madcap premise: a boy seeking answers after hearing lizards play unearthly music.
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