In the most unsurprising casting choice of the year, Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage is headed to television as Joe Exotic. Exotic is best known as the subject of Netflix’sdocuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness.
Cage will play Joe in an eight-episode scripted series from CBS Television Studios and Imagine Television.American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, who has an overall deal at CBS TV Studios, and Paul Young optioned the article in June 2019, well before Tiger King became a hit on Netflix. Because of the show’s success, Cage had been in talks to play the lead role since April.
The Texas Monthly story by Leif Reigstad where the show is based on recounts how
“Joe Schreibvogel built his private zoo in Oklahoma and details his feuds with Jeff Lowe and Carole Baskin, both of whom are prominently featured in Tiger King. The scripted project, currently titled Joe Exotic, will center on Joe as he fights to keep his animal park even at the risk of losing his sanity. It will explore how Joe became Joe Exotic and how he lost himself to a character of his own creation.”
No word on the release date of the series.
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