The
Tiger King-based series, starring Kate McKinnon as Carole Baskin, has found its Joe Exotic. ET has confirmed that John Cameron Mitchell will be playing the Tiger King himself in
Joe Exotic, the working title for the upcoming limited series which will roll out across NBCU’s scripted entertainment platforms, NBC, Peacock and USA.
Joe Exotic is based on true events following big cat enthusiast Baskin, who sets out to shut down Joe Exotic Schreibvogel s venture after learning he is breeding and using his big cats for profit. A quickly escalating rivalry ensues as Baskin works tirelessly to take down Joe and all animal abusers.
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Two years ago, it was announced that Kate McKinnon would be playing Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu limited series,
The Dropout. She was also going to be one of the show’s executive producers. It seemed like the perfect casting decision; McKinnon looks enough like her and excels at playing weirdos. But alas, nothing gold from pre-pandemic times can stay. On Thursday evening,
Deadline announced that McKinnon dropped out of
The Dropout. No context was given as to why she decided to not go through with playing the wunderkind-turned-fraudster, but contractual breakdowns have become somewhat of a fixture in the COVID era, with schedules being shuffled by the halts in production.