Tiger King lives on!
In accordance with THR, a scripted collection primarily based on the hit Netflix docuseries, Tiger King, is within the works at CBS Tv Studios.
We already know who will likely be suiting up as Joe Unique.
Nicolas Cage has been tapped to play the person who turned an in a single day superstar due to the roaring success of the Netflix collection.
Cage had been within the operating for the position since April, however is assumed that negotiations took a while to finalize.
The eight-episode collection will likely be shopped to potential consumers quickly, and there is a good likelihood it is going to spark a bidding conflict.
The bigger than life personalities on the wheel of the Netflix collection discovered themselves propelled to stardom as folks binged the collection.
From wild twists to even wilder revelations being revealed about them within the media, the collection definitely gave folks lots to chew on.
The Texas Month-to-month story by Leif Reigstad particulars how Joe Schreibvogel constructed his personal zoo in Oklahoma and his feuds with Jeff Lowe and Carole Baskin, each of whom are prominently featured in Tiger King.
The brand new collection, at the moment titled Joe Unique, will middle on Joe as he fights to maintain his animal park even on the danger of dropping his sanity.
“It’s going to discover how Joe turned Joe Unique and the way he misplaced himself to a personality of his personal creation,” in accordance with THR.
American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana is on board as author and showrunner and govt produce with Paul Younger of Make Good Content material, Think about’s Brian Grazer and Samie Kim Falvey, Cage (through his Saturn Movies), in addition to Scott Brown and Megan Creydt of Texas Month-to-month.
Think about’s James Seidman and Natalie Berkus are overseeing the mission.
That is now the second scripted collection concerning the wild world of Tiger King.
The primary was introduced final yr, with Kate McKinnon hooked up to star in and govt produce a present primarily based on the Wondery podcast Joe Unique.
McKinnon will play Carole Baskin, however the present has but to begin the writing course of.
Baskin has remained silent following the Netflix collection, doubtless due to the claims that that she murdered her long-missing husband Jack “Don” Lewis.
Nonetheless, she did open up concerning the present over the weekend when a bunch of British Youtubers pranked her into pondering she was being interviewed by Jimmy Fallon.
There is no telling which mission would possibly come first.
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