Overview
- Amazon MGM Studios formally scheduled Lizard Music for a Dec. 25, 2027 theatrical release, a date announced Tuesday.
- Set photos that circulated Tuesday from Coney Island show Dwayne Johnson unrecognizable in heavy prosthetics crafted by Kazu Hiro and wearing a reduced physique after shedding about 30 pounds for the role.
- The film adapts Daniel Pinkwater’s novel into a live-action/CGI hybrid that follows a boy who stumbles on a late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music and then discovers hidden, fantastical worlds.
- The cast combines child lead Theo Clark Leber with on-camera performers including Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Arya Parvathi, Regina Hall and Andrew Dice Clay plus voice work from Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams and David Krumholtz.
- Producers for the holiday tentpole include United Artists’ Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Benny Safdie’s Out for the Count, Seven Bucks Productions and Magnetic Fields, and the project signals a Safdie genre shift and a high-profile, performance-driven turn for Johnson that could reshape his public image and studio holiday lineups.