Regina Hall has joined the cast of Lizard Music, the live-action/CGI hybrid film starring Dwayne Johnson and directed by Benny Safdie for Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists. Deadline reported the news exclusively. Hall plays The Chicken Man’s friend and co-worker. Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker are also part of the ensemble.
According to the official description, the film follows “a boy (Leber) left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music.” His search for answers leads him to “an eccentric and whimsical old man nicknamed The Chicken Man (Johnson) and his beloved companion, a 111-year-old chicken named Claudia.” The two set off on “a voyage through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies and the unbreakable bond between lost souls who discover magic not only in what they find but also in each other.”
Safdie wrote the script, based on Daniel Pinkwater’s novel of the same name. Producers include Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt for United Artists, Safdie for Out for the Count Productions, Johnson for Seven Bucks Productions and David Koplan for Magnetic Fields Entertainment.
Hall recently starred in Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro, earning some of her best reviews, per Deadline. She can currently be seen in Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend, and up next, she’ll star in Nick Stoller’s Judgment Day opposite Will Ferrell for Prime Video and Netflix’s limited series Rabbit, Rabbit opposite Adam Driver.
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