Despite taking a massive, unsuccessful swing with Benny Safdie’s sports film The Smashing Machine last year, Dwayne Johnson has decided to team up with the filmmaker for his next film. Their new collaboration, Lizard Music, is on the other end of the spectrum — a children’s film — although Dwayne has once again experimented with his look. In this one, he plays a 70-year-old.
Pictures of Dwayne Johnson from the set of Lizard Music in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday made it to the internet, and fans couldn’t believe the elderly man, wearing a beige jacket and bucket hat, a blue shirt underneath, and a printed tie around his neck, was actually the former WWE champion-turned-Hollywood action star.
Dwayne and Safdie have gone down the prosthetic route for him once again. In The Smashing Machine, Dwayne hulked up to play former Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) player Mark Kerr in his biopic. But in Lizard Music, prosthetic is used to age the 54-year-old by 16 years so that he can play a character called the Chicken Man.
Lizard Music, an adaptation of Daniel Pinkwater’s 1976 popular children’s novel of the same name, revolves around a young boy who “stumbles upon strange lizard musicians on late-night TV, leading him to befriend a peculiar man with an elderly chicken”, as per the official synopsis. The film also stars Rachel McAdams, Colman Domingo, Jeff Goldblum, Alicia Silverstone, and Regina Hall among others.
To get the job done, Safdie hired prosthetic artist Kazu Hiro, who most recently designed the transformation of another A-list action star, Tom Cruise, into a 65-year-old American oil tycoon in Alejandro Inarritu’s satire Digger. Much like The Smashing Machine, which earned only $21.1 million at the worldwide box office on a budget of $50 million, Digger also bombed at the box office.
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