Dwayne Johnson Transforms Into 70-Year-Old Chicken Man — SkimNews
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- Lizard Music was filming in Brooklyn on Tuesday, with Dwayne Johnson portraying a 70-year-old character known as the Chicken Man.
- Kazu Hiro crafted Johnson’s prosthetic look, complete with a tan bucket hat and coat, while set photos showed the actor beside co-star Theo Clark Leber, who carried an oversized lizard plush.
- Dwayne Johnson shed 30 pounds of muscle to play the Chicken Man, saying the role meant eating less chicken.
- Benny Safdie needed about 45 minutes to convince Johnson to sign on, which Johnson called an easy yes during his 2025 Toronto Film Festival career retrospective.
- Lizard Music adapts Daniel Pinkwater’s children’s book of the same name, following a boy who discovers strange lizard musicians on late-night TV and befriends a peculiar man with an elderly chicken.
- Lizard Music has a Christmas Day 2027 release date from Amazon MGM Studios.
Why it matters: For Amazon MGM Studios, active filming in Brooklyn is the concrete production milestone behind its announced Christmas Day 2027 release. Johnson and Safdie are reuniting after the 2025 film The Smashing Machine, their previous collaboration centered on another extensive prosthetic transformation.
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