Since it’s release on March 20, Tiger King has become a global phenomenon and it’s one of the most popular series on TV. Less than a month after it aired on Netflix, the true-crime series received a special where the stars of the show were interviewed by Joel McHale.
Now, it’s being turned into a scripted series centered around Joe Exotic with Nicolas Cage set to play Joe. The series will be based on the Texas Monthly article, “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad and it will tell the story of Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, an eccentric exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who tries to keep his park, while risking his own sanity. We’ll get to see how Joe Exotic became the character he’s known for and how he lost himself along the way.
Cage is known as a film actor for his roles in Leaving Las Vegas, Moonstruck, Raising Arizona, Face/Off, the National Treasure films, and the Ghost Rider films and this will mark his first regular television role.
This is the second scripted series about Tiger King; the first was announced late last year and Kate McKinnon will star as Carole Baskin. It’s based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic.”
