By Denise Petski Senior Managing Editor A scripted series centered around Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic with Nicolas Cage attached to star and executive produced is in the works, Deadline has confirmed.
The project hails from American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, Paul Young (Key & Peele), Imagine Television Studios and CBS TV Studios.
The eight-episode limited series will go to market in the next few days. Based on the Texas Monthly article Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild, by Leif Reigstad, the story centers around Joe Shreibvogel, an eccentric, exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who fights to keep his park — even at the risk of losing his sanity.
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