A film adaptation is a movie based on existing material such as a novel, translating its story and spirit to the screen. Lizard Music adapts Daniel Pinkwater’s children’s book about a boy who finds a secret broadcast of lizards playing otherworldly music. Directed by Benny Safdie and starring Dwayne Johnson as the elderly Chicken Man, with Theo Clark Leber, Alicia Silverstone, Rachel McAdams and Colman Domingo, the adaptation filmed in Coney Island in October 2026 to considerable attention.
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