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EXCLUSIVE: Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker are nan latest to join Lizard Music, Benny Safdie’s live-action/CGI hybrid adjustment of nan caller by Daniel Pinkwater.
Character specifications are nether wraps. Earlier this week, we announced that 10-year-old Theo Clark Leber had landed nan lead domiciled other Dwayne Johnson, who’s besides producing.
Safdie adapted nan screenplay for Lizard Music, which follows a boy (Leber) near to his ain devices who stumbles upon a concealed late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, a hidden doorway to nan bonzer swings open. His hunt for answers leads him to an eccentric and whimsical aged man nicknamed The Chicken Man (Johnson), and his beloved companion, a 111-year-old chickenhearted named Claudia – 2 kindred spirits who recovered each different astatine conscionable nan correct time. United by this shared vision, they group disconnected connected an escapade that originates arsenic a hunt for a hidden nine but blossoms into thing acold greater: a voyage done invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies, and nan unbreakable enslaved betwixt mislaid souls who observe magic not only successful what they find, but successful each other.
Producers see UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Safdie for Out for nan Count Productions, Johnson for Seven Bucks Productions, and Magnetic Fields Entertainment’s David Koplan.
An Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Silverstone is coming disconnected projects for illustration Yorgos Lanthimos’ Academy Award-nominated Bugonia, nan chart-topping Netflix film A Merry Little Ex-Mas, which she besides exec produced, and nan seductive thriller Pretty Thing with Karl Glusman. She is repped by UTA, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.
Recently taking complete Alex Jones’ Infowars alongside The Onion and reconceiving it arsenic a parody site, Heidecker stars other Gregg Turkington successful nan web series On Cinema. He’s besides precocious been seen starring alongside Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers successful nan scary film Him and is repped by UTA.
