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EXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall has joined Dwayne Johnson successful Amazon MGM Studios’ and United Artists’ live-action/CGI hybrid film, Lizard Music, from head Benny Safdie. Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker are besides portion of nan ensemble. Besides starring, Johnson is besides producing.
The movie will travel a boy (Leber) near to his ain devices who stumbles upon a concealed late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, erstwhile 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.
Hall will play nan friend and co-worker of Johnson’s character, The Chicken Man. Safdie wrote nan script, which is based connected nan Daniel Pinkwater caller of nan aforesaid name.
Producers see UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Out for nan Count Productions’ Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions’ Johnson and Magnetic Fields Entertainment’s David Koplan.
Hall precocious starred successful Paul Thomas Anderson’s Academy Award-winning One Battle After Another alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, and Benicio del Toro. The domiciled earned her immoderate of nan champion reviews of her agelong career.
She tin presently beryllium seen successful Peacock’s The Five-Star Weekend opposite Jennifer Garner, Chloë Sevigny, Gemma Chan, and Timothy Olyphant, which premiered connected July 9th and quickly became Peacock’s apical scripted title of each time, surpassing 1B viewing minutes successful its first week connected nan platform. Additionally, nan show classed among nan apical 5 original streaming bid for nan week of July 6–12, reported by Nielson.
Most recently, Hall reprised her iconic domiciled arsenic Brenda Meeks in Scary Movie 6. Next, she will prima successful Nick Stoller’s Judgment Day opposite Will Ferrell for Prime Video, and Netflix’s constricted series, Rabbit, Rabbit opposite Adam Driver from creator/showrunner Peter Craig and head Philip Barantini. Hall is represented by Independent Artist Group.
