The Joe Exotic phenomenon keeps growing, with Nicolas Cage to star in a TV miniseries about the colorful wild animal owner made famous by the Tiger King docuseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It will explore how Joe Shreibvogel became Joe Exotic and detail his effort to keep his Oklahoma zoo open \u201ceven at the risk of losing his sanity,\u201d the producers said in a statement on Monday. It\u2019s based on the Texas Monthly magazine article \u201cJoe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild\u201d by Leif Reigstad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dan Laguna, who with producer Paul Young optioned the article, will write and executive produce the series, which will be seeking a distribution deal soon, producers said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Netflix\u2019s Tiger King has made Joe Exotic an object of fascination and controversy. He is now known as Joseph Maldonado-Passage and is serving a federal prison sentence for his conviction in a murder-for-hire plot and for animal abuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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