{"id":788384,"date":"2026-07-28T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788384\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:44:09","slug":"dwayne-johnsons-lizard-music-movie-adds-regina-hall-to-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/788384\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson’s ‘Lizard Music’ Movie Adds Regina Hall To Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall<\/a> has joined Dwayne Johnson<\/a> in Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists\u2019 live-action\/CGI hybrid film\u00a0Lizard Music<\/a>, from director Benny Safdie<\/a>. Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker are also part of the ensemble. Besides starring, Johnson is also producing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film will follow a boy (Leber) left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music when 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.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnited 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 also in each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHall will play The Chicken Man\u2019s friend and co-worker. Safdie wrote the script, which is based on the Daniel Pinkwater novel of the same name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tProducers include UA\u2019s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Out for the Count Productions\u2019 Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions\u2019 Johnson and Magnetic Fields Entertainment\u2019s David Koplan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHall recently starred in Paul Thomas Anderson\u2019s Oscar-winning\u00a0One Battle After Another\u00a0alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro. The role earned her some of her best reviews.<\/p>\n

\n\tShe can currently be seen in Peacock\u2019s\u00a0The Five-Star Weekend\u00a0opposite Jennifer Garner, Chlo\u00eb Sevigny, Gemma Chan and Timothy Olyphant, which premiered July 9 and has become Peacock\u2019s top scripted title of all time, surpassing 1 billion viewing minutes in its first week. Additionally, the show ranked among the top five original streaming series for the week of July 6\u201312, per Nielson.<\/p>\n

\n\tMost recently, Hall reprised her role as Brenda Meeks in\u00a0Scary Movie 6, the number one R-rated box-office hit of the year. Next, she will star in Nick Stoller\u2019s\u00a0Judgment Day\u00a0opposite Will Ferrell for Prime Video, and Netflix\u2019s limited series\u00a0Rabbit, Rabbit\u00a0opposite Adam Driver from creator-showrunner Peter Craig and director Philip Barantini.<\/p>\n

\n\tHall is represented by Independent Artist Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall has joined Dwayne Johnson in Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists\u2019 live-action\/CGI hybrid film\u00a0Lizard Music,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[23782,236,4224,88,128271,59123],"class_list":["post-788384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-benny-safdie","tag-celebrities","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-entertainment","tag-lizard-music","tag-regina-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}