Dwayne Johnson Will Play the Hen Man in ‘Lizard Music’

The Rock is about to turn out to be the Hen Man. Dwayne Johnson is set to reteam along with his Smashing Machine director, Benny Safdie, to make Lizard Music, a fantasy journey based mostly on the favored 1976 ebook by Daniel Pinkwater.

Based on Deadline, which broke the information, Johnson will play the aforementioned poultry-themed character, who groups up with a younger man to discover some mysterious goings-on involving music performed by lizards on TV. It’s a kind of books you most likely learn in center faculty or highschool that basically opened your creativeness, although you possible by no means pictured the Rock being on the middle of it.

Safdie (greatest recognized for movies like Good Time and Uncut Gems made along with his brother) will adapt the novel and direct. And although no manufacturing firm or distributor has come on board but, we’d think about that modifications rapidly. Not solely is Johnson, clearly, some of the well-known, bankable stars on the planet, however he and Safdie are additionally about to launch the UFC drama The Smashing Machine, which garnered main awards buzz out of the Venice Movie Competition. You wouldn’t usually assume that you simply go from a brutal, violent UFC drama to a bizarre, fantastical fantasy, nevertheless it actually feels like a extra bankable concept.

Right here’s how Amazon describes Lizard Music, which, for these of us who haven’t learn it, simply would possibly make you need to order a duplicate:

Issues Victor loves: pizza with anchovies, grape soda, B films aired at midnight, the night information. And along with his mother and father off at a resort and his older sister shirking her babysitting duties, Victor has loads of time to indulge himself and to strive just a few issues he’s been inquisitive about. Exploring the close by metropolis of Hogboro, he runs right into a curious character often known as the Hen Man (a reference to his companion, an clever hen named Claudia who lives below his hat). The Hen Man speaks sensible nonsense, however he appears to be hip to the lizard musicians (actual lizards, not males in lizard fits) who’ve begun showing on Victor’s tv after the printed of the late-late film. Are the lizards from outer area? From “different area”? Collectively Victor and the Hen Man, guided by the in a position Claudia, journey to the lizards’ floating island, a wierd and implausible place that operates with an impressed logic of its personal.

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