If Dwayne Johnson Really goes indie and become an artist after working with Benny Safdie at the “atThe crushing machine“The only logical next step would be to reunite the mountain with Safdie in an even alien role: the chicken man.
Comes very quickly from Johnson’s Awards Buzz for “The Smashing Machine” and Safdie’s best director at Venice where film Made their world premiere, Safdie and Johnson reunite again for a package that would start Johnson and that Safdie would write and direct, told a person with knowledge of the IndieWire project. It is about to be shopped to buyers (looking at you A24).
The film is called “Lizard Music”, and it is based on a 1976 Young Adult Science Fiction novel by author Daniel Pinkwater. It is enough to say, the condition is bonkers. It is about a boy who stays late watching TV, he stumbles over a broadcast with actual lizards that play music in a band. When he tries to learn more about them, he meets the chicken man (Johnson), who is aware of lizards and can be from outer space and is leading an invasion. The official log line does a little to make it more sensitive:
When a boy left his own units stumbles on a secret broadcast of lizards on late evenings playing other world music, a hidden door to the extraordinary swings is open. His search for answers leads him to the eccentric and whimsical chicken man and his beloved companion, a seventy-year-old chicken named Claudia-two related spirits that has also been obvious. Confounded with this shared vision, they went on an adventure that begins as a hunt for a hidden society but blooms to something much greater: a journey through invisible worlds, unexpected harmonies and the unbreakable bond between lost souls that discover magic not only in what they find, but in each other.
The rock that plays an MMA fighter in a Biopik seems in the opportunity, but what this definitely seems to take him out of his controlhouse. Johnson would also produce the film through his seven Bucks productions, and he would collaborate with Safdie and “Smashing Machine” producer David Koplan.
Reviews for “The Smashing Machine” were strong, with Indieview That the movie is a “cute duet between a remarkably unnoticed Johnson and a burning good, blue collar and newly blown Emily Blunt.” And even if it’s not your typical award work, we also told you believe that hype mountain cooked. A24 successfully mapped Brendan Fraser and “The Whale” to an Oscar by reclassifying phrases as a serious actor, and the distributor uses the same plan for Johnson.
Deadline First reported the news about the package.
