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Nicolas Cage will portray Joe Exotic in a new scripted series about the over-the-top roadside zookeeper at the center of the Netflix docuseries, Tiger King, Rolling Stone can confirm. The eight-episode series is based not on the docuseries, but Leif Reigstad’s June 2019 Texas Monthly article, “Joe Exotic: A Dark …

With his bottle-blond mullet, tacky shirts, and this-close-to-offensive catchy songs (like “Pretty Woman Lover”), zookeeper-country singer Joe Exotic looks and sounds like he emerged from country’s less-polished past. And for that, as quarantined viewers who are as captive as Exotic’s own lions and tigers, we’re oh-so grateful. The narcissistic star …