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\n\tEXCLUSIVE:<\/strong>\u00a0Alicia Silverstone<\/a> and Tim Heidecker<\/a> are the latest to join\u00a0Lizard Music<\/a><\/em>, Benny Safdie\u2019s live-action\/CGI hybrid adaptation of the novel by Daniel Pinkwater.<\/p>\n \n\tCharacter details are under wraps. Earlier this week, we announced that 10-year-old Theo Clark Leber had landed the lead role opposite Dwayne Johnson, who\u2019s also producing.<\/p>\n \n\tSafdie adapted the screenplay for\u00a0Lizard Music<\/em>, which follows a boy (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, a 111-year-old chicken named Claudia \u2013 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.<\/p>\n \n\tProducers include UA\u2019s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Safdie for Out for the Count Productions, Johnson for Seven Bucks Productions, and Magnetic Fields Entertainment\u2019s David Koplan.<\/p>\n \n\tAn Emmy and Golden Globe nominee, Silverstone is coming off projects like Yorgos Lanthimos\u2019 Academy Award-nominated\u00a0Bugonia<\/em>, the chart-topping Netflix film\u00a0A Merry Little Ex-Mas<\/em>, which she also exec produced, and the erotic thriller\u00a0Pretty Thing<\/em>\u00a0with Karl Glusman. She is repped by UTA, Untitled, and Gang, Tyre, Ramer.<\/p>\n \n\tRecently taking over Alex Jones\u2019\u00a0Infowars<\/em>\u00a0alongside\u00a0The Onion<\/em>\u00a0and reconceiving it as a parody site, Heidecker stars opposite Gregg Turkington in the web series\u00a0On Cinema<\/em>. He\u2019s also recently been seen starring alongside Marlon Wayans and Tyriq Withers in the horror film\u00a0Him<\/em> and is repped by UTA.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source deadline.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EXCLUSIVE:\u00a0Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker are the latest to join\u00a0Lizard Music, Benny Safdie\u2019s live-action\/CGI hybrid adaptation of the novel by Daniel Pinkwater. Character details are under wraps. Earlier this week, we announced that 10-year-old Theo Clark Leber had landed the lead role opposite Dwayne Johnson, who\u2019s also producing. 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