BBC Two growing Joe Exotic documentary

By PTI
LOS ANGELES: Joseph Maldonado-Passage, who rose to prominence as Joe Exotic of the hit Netflix sequence “Tiger King”, is now set to be the topic of a brand new feature-length documentary at BBC Two.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, BAFTA-winning presenter-journalist Louis Theroux will discover how the zookeeper turned a media phenomenon after the 2020 true-crime sequence.

Exotic has been discovered responsible of a murder-for-hire plot and a number of animal cruelty prices.

His reputation discovered him a well-funded marketing campaign crew who had been trying to win him a presidential pardon.

The documentary has the working title “Louis Theroux: The Cult of Joe Exotic” and Theroux mentioned this story is “quintessentially American” tales, going down within the heartland of Oklahoma, with a forged of characters virtually too vibrant and larger-than-life to be believed.

Interestingly, Theroux first met Exotic while making his documentary “America’s Most Dangerous Pets” a decade in the past.

“I spent eight or nine days filming at the park back in 2011, over the course of three separate visits. I’d forgotten how much we shot until I went back into the footage during the lockdown.”

“It’s extraordinary how much was there. Since then the story just got stranger and bigger, and in going back at the end of last year I uncovered a real-life drama that took me in directions I never could have expected,” he mentioned.

Clare Sillery, the BBC’s head of commissioning, documentaries, historical past and faith, mentioned the upcoming particular might be full to the brim with never-before-seen footage and model new interviews with these on all sides of the Joe Exotic story.

“In this follow-up to Louis’ revelatory first-look at the life of Joe Exotic in ‘America’s Most Dangerous Pets’, viewers will be taken even more deeply into the weird world of one of America’s most notorious figures,” Sillery added.

Meanwhile, Nicolas Cage is about to play Exotic in an upcoming CBS drama sequence picked up by Amazon Studios.