Joe Exotic has completely taken the world by tornado via the Netflix documentary succession Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, and now we’ll lastly be coming a scripted sequence boasting a very familiar face.

Many celebs jokingly( and some not so much better) threw their hat into the proverbial reverberate with hopes of being shed as the lead character in any potential projects.

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Dax Shepard has been campaigning via social media for his shot at portraying Mr. Maldonado-Passage, as has Edward Norton and Jared Leto apparently, but it seems the first persona to be cast is actually going to someone who flies jolly far under the radar when he’s not stealing national treasures…

Any speculates, Perezcious books ??

It’s…

Nicolas Cage!

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Sorry to everybody else … there’s always a biopic !!

This is the first TV show of the 56 -year-old’s job — which has thus far included over 100 movies like National Treasure and Ghost Rider — so it’s actually a pretty big deal for him!

Cage will be portraying the former Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park owner in an eight-episode series from CBS Television Studios and Imagine Television, based on a 2019 Texas Monthly story. A structure has yet to pick it up as the product business are shopping it around to possible purchasers soon, per The Hollywood Reporter.

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This new series is the second wrote campaign based on the Kansas native. Saturday Night Live star Kate McKinnon is set to executive produce and depict Carole Baskin in an upcoming demo from Universal Content Production, based on Wondery’s Joe Exotic: Tiger King podcast. There is currently no begin liberation date, but it has been in the works since November.

While it’s unclear how Joe feels about Nic portraying him( who knows if word has even gotten to him hitherto in prison ??), Miz Baskin did have some thoughts on McKinnon’s project 😛 TAGEND

” Kate McKinnon is an excellent actress. Big Cat Rescue pleads Kate McKinnon to not use real big cats and babes in the making of her streak … We hope McKinnon has a passion for animals and that her serial will focus on the shameful lives captive big cat head when being used by breeders like Joe Exotic. We further hope she advises the public to support the Big Cat Public Safety Act that would end the puppy babying abuse in America .”

She continued 😛 TAGEND

” The Wondery podcast, which is the basis for her succession, explores the raging breeding, abuse and exploitation of big cat by breeder and exhibitor Joe Exotic. It would be cruel to use real big cats in a television series about cruelty to big cats .”

Guess we’ll have to wait and receive what Hollywood decides to do !!

What do U think of Nic in this role, Perezcious readers ?? Let us know( below) in the comments !!

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