Nicolas Cage Won’t Portray Tiger King’s Joe Exotic as Amazon Shelves Project: ‘No Longer Relevant’

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No one can blame Carole Baskin for this one. After a highly anticipated Tiger King scripted series was announced last year, Amazon — and star Nicolas Cage — have chosen not to move forward with the project.“We should clear the record,” the Moonstruck actor, 57, told Variety on Tuesday, July 13, while announcing the news. “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.

They felt at one point that it was lightning in a bottle, but that point has since faded into the distance and it’s no longer relevant.”The show — which would’ve been the first TV show to ever star Cage — was based on a 2019 Texas