After ‘The Smashing Machine’ Disappointment, Benny Safdie and Dwayne Johnson’s Next Project ‘Lizard Music’ Lands at United Artists

Just a little over a month after it hit the market, Amazon MGM’s United Artists has scooped up the rights to “Lizard Music,” which is the next film from Benny Safdie that will reunite him with Dwayne Johnson. Clearly the box office disappointment for their first collaboration “The Smashing Machine” did nothing to dampen the excitement for their next team-up.

“Lizard Music” though is even stranger, a book adaptation that concerns lizard musicians from outer space that will star The Rock as a guy in his seventies known only as Chicken Man, mainly because he has a beloved companion named Claudia who happens to be a 111-year-old chicken. The film follows a boy who discovers a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, opening him up to an entirely new world of wonder that leads him to Chicken Man, who is also aware of the lizard musicians and…