With our current obsession, Netflix series Tiger King, looking set to get the Hollywood upgrade with a scripted series based on Joe Exotic in the works, I implore the good people of Hollywood – please don’t ruin an adaptation with shoddy CGI cats.
Not again. Before Tiger King: Murder Mayhem and Madness introduced us to the larger than life character of Joe Maldonado-Passage, AKA Joe Exotic, and his one-hundred-and-something tigers, lions and ligers, a series was already in the works based on an earlier podcast around the former Oklahoma zoo owner-cum-prisoner.
There is talk that Kate McKinnon is both executive producing the series and playing the role of Big Cat Rescue’s Carole Baskin – Joe’s nemesis and half the reason he is in prison,