‘Highfire’: Nicolas Cage To Voice A Drunk Dragon In A Live-Action, Gritty Fantasy Crime Series For Amazon

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Nicolas Cage as Tiger King  subject Joe Exotic, has found a home at Amazon.According to reports from The Hollywood Reporter, the company’s Prime Video streaming platform will develop a scripted series from CBS Television Studios and Imagine Entertainment. Amazon Studios has also come aboard to produce.The series is going to be based on a 2019 Texas Monthly story about Joe Schreibvogel (aka Joe Exotic) and how he built a private zoo in Oklahoma.

Tiger King.The 56-year-old actor was originally attached to the project in May when it was being developed by CBS TV Studios and Imagine TV, but Amazon Studios is now developing the series, as Variety reports.Instead of taking direct inspiration from the Netflix show, the drama is instead based on the Texas Monthly article ‘Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild’ by Leif Reigstad.The show will explore how Joe Shreibvogel eventually transformed into Joe Exotic, and the

It was previously announced that Nicolas Cage will be playing the role of Joe Exotic in an upcoming series about the Tiger King star. Now, it has been revealed that Amazon Studios has signed on to help develop the show!

Update 9/10/20: Deadline reports that the Joe Exotic scripted series based on Netflix's hit docuseries Tiger King has officially landed at Amazon Prime Video. The series will focus on Joe Shreibvogel, who will be played by Nicolas Cage, and his journey to became Joe Exotic.

ordered by NBC, Peacock and USA Network: The story centers around Joe Shreibvogel, an eccentric, exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who fights to keep his park — even at the risk of losing his sanity.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAmazon Prime Video has taken in for development a scripted series starring Nicolas Cage as the infamous Joe Exotic, made a household name by the hugely popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King. The project, which had been in the works at CBS TV Studios, hails from Brian Grazer, American Vandal showrunner Dan Lagana, and Paul Young.The yet untitled series was taken out to buyers in May, with Amazon quickly emerging as its likely destination.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe scripted series about “Tiger King’s” Joe Exotic starring Nicolas Cage has been set up at Amazon for development, Variety has learned.Variety exclusively reported the project was in the works from CBS Television Studios and Imagine Television in May.

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Steve Clarke 's side are in Olomouc on Nations League duty to face a Czech Republic side served a grim reminder of the fragility of the game's current existence.The entire squad involved in Friday's win over Slovenia have been placed into Covid-19 quarantine and an entirely new contingent has been hastily assembled in its place.Only defender Roman Hubnik and striker Stanislav Tecl have caps to their name, but have spent four and two years out of the picture, respectively.It creates a hugely

last year, which was supposed to include a suite of new TV series based on Sony’s Marvel Universe. Silk is set to be part of a larger roster of characters, similar to Netflix’s “Defenders” franchise that included Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Dave McNary Film ReporterSharon Horgan will play Nicolas Cage’s ex-wife in Lionsgate’s action comedy “The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.”Cage stars as a fictionalized version of himself who’s feeling creatively unfulfilled and facing financial ruin, leading him to accept a $1 million offer to attend the birthday of a super fan, played by Pedro Pascal.

Highfire.According to Deadline, Cage will voice the dragon in the live-action show which is based on Eoin Colfer’s crime thriller novel.Unlike the novel, the new fantasy drama will be aimed at an adult audience and centres on a dragon (Highfire) who lives in swamp in Louisiana.

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Deadline. Cage’s dragon is also described as loving “Flashdance” and living alone in the bayous of Louisiana.Reps for Amazon did not respond to TheWrap’s request for comment Friday, but told Deadline that the “National Treasure” actor will executive produce the fantasy drama with Holmes, alongside Andrew Mittman for 1.21.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNicolas Cage is attached to voice the lead character of and executive produce a series adaptation of “Artemis Fowl” author Eoin Colfer’s novel “Highfire” in development at Amazon, Variety has confirmed.Cage will play the titular Highfire, described as a vodka-drinking, “Flashdance”-loving dragon who lives an isolated existence in the bayous of Louisiana.In the series, dragons once ruled the earth and Lord Highfire ruled the dragons from his eyrie.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Amazon has put in development Highfire, a TV series based on the adult thriller novel by bestselling Artemis Fowl author Eoin Colfer, with Nicolas Cage voicing the lead character and executive producing.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThe book, described as True Detective by way of Pete’s Dragon, is being adapted for television by Davey Holmes, creator/executive producer of Epix’s Get Shorty TV series, based on the

Caroline Framke Chief TV CriticIt only took a few weeks of social distancing to make the world that existed before COVID-19 feel absurdly out of reach. After building new routines of donning face masks and frantically wiping down precious groceries, a reality with dive bars, concerts and dinner parties becomes more and more abstract, not to mention painful to recall.

Sometimes the characters you watch on screen are eerily similar to how you are in real life. It’s almost as if the director has somehow been spying on you.