Amazon MGM Studios’ United Artists and Scott Stuber have landed Lizard Music.

The project reunites The Smashing Machine‘s Dwayne Johnson and Benny Safdie. Johnson is attached to star and Safdie is attached to direct and write the script, based on the Daniel Pinkwater novel. 

The film will follow a boy left to his own devices who stumbles upon a secret late-night broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music, and a hidden door to the extraordinary swings open. His search for answers leads him to the eccentric and whimsical septuagenarian Chicken Man and his beloved companion, a 111-year-old chicken named Claudia – two kindred spirits who found each other at just the right time. United 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 in each other. 

Producers for Lizard Music include UA’s Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Out for the Count Productions’ Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions’ Dwayne Johnson, and Magnetic Fields Entertainment’s David Koplan.