Overview

• Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists banner and Scott Stuber secured the project in a competitive bidding situation.
• Dwayne Johnson is attached to portray the septuagenarian Chicken Man, whose closest companion is a 111-year-old chicken named Claudia.
• Producers include Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt for UA, Benny Safdie’s Out for the Count, Dwayne Johnson’s Seven Bucks, and Magnetic Fields’ David Koplan.
• An early synopsis follows a boy who discovers a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music that leads to an unexpected adventure.
• The project is in early development with studio backing, with no release date or further casting disclosed.