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Nicolas Cage to play 'Tiger King's' Joe Exotic in scripted series

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Nicolas Cage is set to star in a scripted series centered on Joe Exotic, the subject of the Netflix docuseries “Tiger King,” Varietyhas learned exclusively.

The eight-episode series is being produced by Imagine TelevisionStudios and CBS Television Studios. It will be taken to market in the coming days. It is based on the Texas Monthly article “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad.

Dan Lagana and Paul Young optioned the article through Lagana’s overall deal at CBS Television Studios in June of 2019. Lagana will serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer with Young executive producing via Make Good Content. Imagine’s Brian Grazer and Samie Kim Falvey will executive produce for Imagine. Cage will executive produce via Saturn Films. Scott Brown and Megan Creydt will executive produce for Texas Monthly. Imagine’s James Seidman and Natalie Berkus are overseeing the project for the company.

The story centers around Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a Joe Exotic, an eccentric, exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who fights to keep his park even at the risk of losing his sanity. The series will live in the lion’s den with Joe, explore how he became Joe Exotic, and how he lost himself to a character of his own creation.

The role marks the first television role of Cage’s career.

https://variety.com/2020/tv/news/joe-exotic-nicolas-cage-series-tiger-king-1234574979/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

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Cage, I see what they did there

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So sploosh your juice all over me you Riverboy
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I don't even know how to process this information...or the image in my head of what Nic Cage will look like as Joe Exotic...

the accent...the piercings..the hair...I...

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This story is already getting overkill. First the podcast, the Netflix doc, now multiple scripted movies and tv show adaptations. Like ok????

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Just now, TropicOfCANCER said:

This story is already getting overkill. First the podcast, the Netflix doc, now multiple scripted movies and tv show adaptations. Like ok????

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Yeah.. Did we really need more? The docuseries was fun and interesting because it was real people with real life consequences. 

 

A scripted version of this after watching it seems pointless. I know they trying to milk it, but still. :awkney:

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Justice for Matthew McConaughey 

Cage is good too though, if they're making it into a comedy. We'd be laughing at/with him lol 

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Why do these people need anymore publicity than they've already received? Everyone in that documentary was a criminal and doesn't deserve fame. 

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