Raye to Voice Character, Make Music for Benny Safdie’s ‘Lizard Music’

Raye has joined Benny Safdie‘s upcoming film Lizard Music. The Grammy winner will create original music for the movie, which will blend live action with CGI, according to Deadline. Star and producer Dwayne 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.

The film is based on the 1976 novel of the same name by Daniel Pinkwater, a wildly prolific author of children’s and young adults’ novels. Safdie wrote the film’s script based on Pinkwater’s work and Lizard Music is set to roll out in theaters on Dec. 25, 2027.

Per 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.

Producers UA’s Scott Stuber and Nick Nesbitt, Out for the Count Productions’ Safdie, Seven Bucks Productions’ Johnson, and Magnetic Fields Entertainment’s David Koplan are also attached to the project.

In May, following her acclaimed second album, This Music May Contain Hope, Raye was cast in the Yann Demange-directed Lineage, a crime feature set in London. The announcement marked Raye’s first scripted dramatic role, though she previously played herself in an episode of Netflix’s Black Rabbit. Raye’s massive hit “Where Is My Husband!” from her latest album is considered a major contender for Song of the Year at the upcoming Grammys.