{"id":76169,"date":"2026-10-30T23:08:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/raye-to-voice-character-make-music-for-benny-safdies-lizard-music\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T23:08:46","slug":"raye-to-voice-character-make-music-for-benny-safdies-lizard-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/raye-to-voice-character-make-music-for-benny-safdies-lizard-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Raye to Voice Character, Make Music for Benny Safdie&#8217;s \u2018Lizard Music\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"a-article-grid__header_top lrv-u-flex lrv-u-align-items-center lrv-u-justify-content-center lrv-u-flex-direction-column@mobile-max \">\n<div class=\"lrv-u-display-inline-block\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis Music May Contain Reptiles\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Dwayne Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams,\u00a0and more will also feature in the film<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n\t\t<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/raye\/\" id=\"auto-tag_raye\" data-tag=\"raye\">Raye<\/a> has joined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/benny-safdie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_benny-safdie\" data-tag=\"benny-safdie\">Benny Safdie<\/a>\u2018s upcoming film <em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lizard-music\/\">Lizard Music<\/a><\/em>. The Grammy winner will create original music for the movie, which will blend live action with CGI, according to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/raye-voice-role-lizard-music-benny-safdie-composing-1237209560\/\">Deadline<\/a>. Star and producer\u00a0Dwayne Johnson, Theo Leber, Alicia Silverstone, Tim Heidecker, Arya Parvathi, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams, David Krumholtz, and Andrew Dice Clay have also signed on to the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe film is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Daniel Pinkwater, a wildly prolific author of children\u2019s and young adults\u2019 novels. Safdie wrote the film\u2019s script based on Pinkwater\u2019s work and <em>Lizard Music<\/em> is set to roll out in theaters on Dec. 25, 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tPer Deadline, the film will chronicle the madcap adventures of a boy named Leber who discovers a late-night broadcast of lizards playing unearthly music. He joins up with an eccentric old man nicknamed the Chicken Man and his confidante, an octogenarian chicken named Claudia, as they nose around the universe for answers.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tProducers 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 are also attached to the project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tIn May, following her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/raye-this-music-may-contain-hope-album-review-1235538055\/\">acclaimed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/raye-new-single-tour-dates-1235430240\/\">second album<\/a>, <em>This Music May Contain Hope<\/em>, Raye was cast in the Yann Demange-directed <em>Lineage<\/em>, a crime feature set in London. The announcement marked Raye\u2019s first scripted dramatic role, though she previously played herself in an episode of Netflix\u2019s <em>Black Rabbit<\/em>. Raye\u2019s massive hit \u201cWhere Is My Husband!\u201d from her latest album is considered a major contender for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/grammys-2027-song-of-the-year-predictions-nominees-1235639803\/\"> Song of the Year<\/a> at the upcoming Grammys.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/raye-benny-safdie-film-lizard-music-novel-1235650792\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Music May Contain Reptiles Dwayne Johnson, Alicia Silverstone, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Rachel McAdams,\u00a0and more will also feature in the film&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":76170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}