Nicolas Cage is to star in a TV series about the wild animal owner Joe Exotic from the “Tiger King” docuseries.
It will explore how Joe Shreibvogel became Joe Exotic and detail his effort to keep his Oklahoma zoo open “even at the risk of losing his sanity,” the producers said in a statement Monday.
The producers working on the project will be from Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios.
This will be Cage’s first regular TV role of his career. However, this is not his first rodeo in the world of acting, having won the Academy Award for best actor for “Leaving Las Vegas” and getting a nomination in the same category for “Adaptation.” He is also known for his starring roles in films like “Moonstruck,” “Raising Arizona,” “Face/Off,” and the “National Treasure” and “Ghost Rider” movies.
This is the second announced scripted series about the wild world of “Tiger King.” The first scripted series was announced with Kate McKinnon as the attached star to play Carole Baskin and as an executive producer of the series based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic.”
That series hails from Universal Content Productions.
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