# Raye To Compose Original Music And Voice A Character For Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’ At United Artists

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/raye-to-compose-original-music-and-voice-a-character-for-benny-safdies-lizard-music-at-united-artists/
- Published: 2026-10-30T18:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-30T18:51:06+00:00
- Original publisher: Deadline
- Original article: https://deadline.com/2026/10/raye-voice-role-lizard-music-benny-safdie-composing-1237209560/
- Topics: Art, Celebrity, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Music

## Key points

- Raye joins *Lizard Music* as a voice actor and composer.
- Benny Safdie’s adaptation is due in cinemas on 25 December 2027.
- The story follows a boy, a mysterious lizard broadcast and the Chicken Man.

## Summary

Raye will voice a character and compose original music for Benny Safdie’s film *Lizard Music*, a live-action and CGI adaptation of Daniel Pinkwater’s novel. Her involvement adds a prominent musician to a project whose story centres on an unusual broadcast and the friendship between a boy and an eccentric older man.

The film stars Theo Leber as the boy and Dwayne Johnson as the Chicken Man, alongside Alicia Silverstone, Regina Hall, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum and Rachel McAdams. It is scheduled for a cinema release on 25 December 2027. Raye has had 21 UK Top 40 singles and won six BRIT Awards in 2024; her 2026 album *This Music May Contain Hope* won the Mercury Prize and reached No. 1 in the UK.

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