Kate McKinnon’s Joe Exotic series ordered by NBCUniversal

The Joe Exotic function has but to be forged, NBCUniversal mentioned.

The saga of Joe Exotic is getting one other Hollywood chapter, with Kate McKinnon starring as his rival in a restricted TV series.

The Saturday Night Live star will play Carole Baskin, who sought to close down Joseph Maldonado-Passage’s for-profit breeding of huge cats. The battle turned a popular culture sensation with Netflix’s docu-series Tiger King.

The series, ordered and not using a pilot episode, might be based mostly on the Wondery podcast Joe Exotic, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming mentioned Tuesday.

It’s deliberate for launch throughout three company siblings: the NBC broadcast community, cable’s USA channel and the lately launched Peacock streaming service, NBC Universal mentioned.

McKinnon additionally might be an executiver producer for the present with the working title of Joe Exotic, Maldonado-Passage’s nickname. He’s additionally identified by the surname Schreibvogel.

Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year federal jail time period for killing 5 tigers and plotting to have Baskin killed. In June, a federal decide awarded Baskin possession of the non-public Oklahoma zoo run by Maldonado-Passage.

The Joe Exotic function has but to be forged, NBCUniversal mentioned. Production and launch dates weren’t introduced.

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