Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic...for now. The Oscar-winning actor was set to play the viral star but said Amazon decided to shelve the project, inspired by the Netflix docu-series In a new interview with , Cage said that while he was very much into the project, Amazon ultimately felt like the content was «past tense,» after the series took so long to come together.
ET has reached out to Amazon for comment. «We should clear the record,» Cage told. «I read two excellent scripts, which I did think were excellent, but I think Amazon ultimately felt that it was material that had become past tense because it took so long for it come together.
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