# Alicia Silverstone & Tim Heidecker Latest To Join Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/alicia-silverstone-tim-heidecker-latest-to-join-benny-safdies-lizard-music/
- Published: 2026-07-23T20:10:38+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-23T21:42:46+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/07/lizard-music-movie-cast-alicia-silverstone-tim-heidecker-1237001897/
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- Silverstone and Heidecker join Benny Safdie’s Lizard Music.
- Theo Clark Leber and Dwayne Johnson lead the cast.
- The film adapts Daniel Pinkwater’s surreal children’s novel.

## Summary

Alicia Silverstone and Tim Heidecker have joined the cast of Benny Safdie’s forthcoming film Lizard Music, a live-action/CGI adaptation of Daniel Pinkwater’s novel. Their roles have not been disclosed, and the announcement adds further recognisable names to a project led by newcomer Theo Clark Leber and Dwayne Johnson.

The story follows a boy who discovers a late-night broadcast featuring lizards performing strange music, leading him to The Chicken Man and his 111-year-old chicken, Claudia. Safdie wrote the screenplay and is producing alongside Johnson, United Artists’ Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, and David Koplan of Magnetic Fields Entertainment.

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