The Joe Exotic phenomenon keeps growing, with Nicolas Cage to star in a TV miniseries about the colourful wild animal owner made famous by the ‘Tiger King’ docuseries.
The TV series is the first for Cage, who has played a range of characters in movies including ‘Leaving Las Vegas’, for which he won an Oscar, ‘Moonstruck’ and ‘National Treasure’.
Imagine Television Studios and CBS Television Studios are among the producers of the limited, eight-part project
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. It’s based on the Texas Monthly magazine article ‘Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild’ by Leif Reigstad.