Overview

• Safdie will adapt and direct Daniel Pinkwater’s 1976 novel, reuniting with Johnson after The Smashing Machine.
• Johnson told the TIFF audience he is slimming down for the septuagenarian character and still has further to go.
• The project is an early-stage package with no studio, budget, shooting schedule, or release date announced.
• Producers attached are Safdie’s Down For The Count Productions, Johnson’s Seven Bucks Productions, and David Koplan.
• The story follows a boy who discovers late-night broadcasts of lizards playing music and teams up with the whimsical Chicken Man and his 70-year-old chicken, Claudia.