Raye to Score and Voice Character in ‘Lizard Music’ — SkimNews
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- Raye has joined Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music to voice one of the characters and compose its original music for United Artists’ live-action/CGI film.
- Lizard Music is slated for theaters on December 25, 2027, with Dwayne Johnson, Theo Leber, Arya Parvathi, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams, David Krumholtz and Andrew Dice Clay in the announced cast.
- Benny Safdie wrote the screenplay for Lizard Music, based on Daniel Pinkwater’s novel of the same name; Scott Stuber, Nick Nesbitt, Safdie, Dwayne Johnson and David Koplan are among the producers.
- Theo Leber plays a boy left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, then searches for answers and a hidden society.
- Dwayne Johnson plays the eccentric, whimsical Chicken Man, whose beloved companion is Claudia, an 85-year-old chicken; the boy and old man become kindred spirits and set off on an adventure through invisible worlds and unexpected harmonies.
- Raye has charted 21 Top 40 UK singles and amassed more than 10 billion Spotify streams since debuting in 2014; at the 2024 Brit Awards, she won a record six trophies and became the first woman named Songwriter of the Year.
- Raye won Album of the Year for My 21st Century Blues at the 2024 Brit Awards, while her 2026 sophomore album This Music May Contain Hope won the Mercury Prize, became her first UK No. 1 album and debuted in the Top 10 across 16 territories.
Why it matters: Raye gains a film-composition and voice-acting credit on the Dec. 25, 2027 release, joining Dwayne Johnson and Theo Leber in the cast. Her four Grammy nominations, 21 UK Top 40 singles and more than 10 billion Spotify streams establish the scale of the musician now working in both performance and original composition.
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