Amid Nicolas Cage's self-proclaimed quest to make at least 150 movies in his career, Variety announced May 4 that Cage landed what will surely become another defining role in it: that of the Tiger King.
Following the absolute mania of the Netflix docuseries, "Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness" — Nielsen data reported that it reached an astounding 34.3 million unique viewers in the first 10 days — Cage will be stepping into the work boots of Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a. Joe Exotic, in his first series regular role.
The yet-to-be-named eight-episode series will reportedly be based on Leif Reigstad's Texas Monthly article, "Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild," and begin following the events of Netflix's "Tiger King," but before Exotic's 2018 arrest for a murder-for-hire plot against his business rival, Carole Baskin. The show will thus chronicle what occurred after Exotic lost his Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (also known as G.W. Zoo in Oklahoma) to his former business partner, Jeff Lowe, and moved to Florida with his husband, Dillon Passage, in an effort to reinvent himself.
For Cage — someone who is also seemingly unmoved by respectability politics who has had his own mini-collection of exotic animals, including a pair of king cobras and pet octopus — the role seems like a perfect fit.
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