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Joe Exotic is getting the scripted treatment. According to Variety, Nicolas Cage has been tapped to star in a new series about Exotic, subject of the hit Netflix docuseries Tiger King. The eight-episodes series will be based on a Texas Monthly article about the former Oklahoma Zoo owner, “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad.
Variety reports that the scripted Joe Exotic series is being produced by Imagine Television and CBS Television Studios. The series has yet to land at a specific network, but will be pitched to various platforms over the next few days. Dan Lagana (American Vandal) and Paul Young optioned the project through Lagana’s overall deal with CBS; he will serve as showrunner and executive producer, with Young executive producing via Make Good Content. In addition to starring, Cage will also serve as an executive producer via Saturn Films.
Cage’s Joe Exotic series will follow the eccentric zoo owner (and political candidate) as he fights to keep his park amid a hostile takeover, a storyline that will be familiar to Tiger King viewers. According to Variety, “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.”
Exotic is currently in prison for hiring a hitman to murder animal rights activist Carole Baskin and for violating the Endangered Species Act. Exotic was convicted in April 2019 (the final episode of Tiger King tracks his trial) and was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
While Cage is known for playing offbeat characters in films including National Treasure and Ghost Rider, the still-untitled Joe Exotic series will be his first television role. Between the new series and his work in forthcoming projects Pig, 10 Double Zero, and Prisoners of the Ghostland, the actor is slated to have quite a busy year.
