Dwayne Johnson Starring, Benny Safdie Directed Amazon MGM Studios Pic ‘Lizard Music’ To Tune Up Christmas Day 2027

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios has dated the Benny Safdie directed live-action/CGI hybrid, Lizard Music, starring Dwayne Johnson, for a Dec. 25, 2027 theatrical release. Lizard Music follows a boy (Theo Clark Leber) left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open. His search for answers leads him to an eccentric and whimsical old man nicknamed The Chicken Man (Johnson), and his beloved companion, an 85 year-old chicken named Claudia – the boy and the old man, become two kindred spirits who found each other at just the right time. United by this shared vision, they set off on an adventure that begins as a hunt for a hidden society but blossoms into something far greater: a voyage through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies, and the unbreakable bond between lost souls who discover magic not only in what they find, but in each other. The project is billed as being another transformative role for Johnson with extensive makeup and prosthetics as the eccentric septuagenarian Chicken Man. Watch on Deadline Given the fantasy and wonder nature of the project, a Christmas launchpad is ideal in reaching family audiences. Lizard Music will arrive in theaters in next year following the Dec. 17 release of Disney/Marvel Studio’s Avengers: Secret Wars, New Line’s Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum, and Lionsgate’s sequel The Housemaid’s Secret. Also opening on Christmas Day are Amazon MGM Studio’s Ron Howard directed Adam Driver and Anne Hathaway action feature, Alone at Dawn, as well as Warner Bros’ untitled Nancy Meyers directed movie. Lizard Music also stars Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Arya Parvathi, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams, Andrew Dice Clay, and David Krumholtz. Safdie adapted the screenplay off Daniel Pinkwater’s novel of the same name. Producers include UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Out for the Count Productions’ Benny Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions’ Johnson, and Magnetic Fields Entertainment’s David Koplan.