Amazon scraps Joe Exotic collection starring Nicolas Cage

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Hollywood star Nicolas Cage has revealed that he’ll now not play Joe Exotic, the topic of the hit documentary collection “Tiger King”, in a brand new scripted present which isn’t shifting ahead at Amazon Studios.

The venture would have marked the primary common tv position for the Oscar winner, who was additionally connected to function govt producer on the potential present.

According to Cage, the collection didn’t come to fruition on the streamer as Amazon felt the curiosity within the story had began fading away.

“We should clear the record. 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 to 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 57-year-old actor informed Variety.

Sources near the scenario say the venture, produced by Imagine and CBS Studios, possibly shopped to different retailers.

Amazon declined to touch upon the standing of the Joe Exotic collection.

Joseph Maldonado-Passage, higher generally known as Joe Exotic, was the topic of the favored “Tiger King”, documentary collection from Netflix.

A former Oklahoma tiger-zoo proprietor, Joe Exotic is serving a 22-year jail sentence for his position in a murder-for-hire plot in opposition to animal rights activist Carole Baskin, who was making an attempt to close down his big-cat operation.

Another collection on “Tiger King” story is underneath improvement on the streamer Peacock, with Kate McKinnon and John Cameron Mitchell connected to star.

Cage is at the moment incomes reward for his efficiency as a truffle hunter who goes looking for his pig after she is kidnapped in first-time characteristic writer-director Michael Sanrosksi’s “Pig”, which opens on Friday, July 16, 2021, on the ongoing Cannes Film Festival.