Nicolas Cage to voice vodka-loving dragon in new Amazon series ‘Highfire’

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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.

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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!

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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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.

Apple TV+ has ordered “Five Days At Memorial,” a limited series from Oscar-winner John Ridley and Emmy winner Carlton Cuse, which chronicles events in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.The pickup of the new series, based on the acclaimed non-fiction book by Pulitzer Prize winning author Sheri Fink, comes on the 15th anniversary of one of America’s worst natural disasters.“Five Days At Memorial,” from ABC Signature, chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after

John Ridley and Carlton Cuse will produce a limited series adaptation of “Five Days at Memorial,” Sheri Fink’s non-fiction book about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, for Apple TV+, the streaming service said Tuesday.Based on Fink’s 2013 novel of the same name, “Five Days At Memorial” takes place over “the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall,” per Apple.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterJohn Ridley and Carlton Cuse are set to adapt Sheri Fink’s novel “Five Days at Memorial” for Apple as a limited series, Variety has learned.The book chronicles the first five days in a New Orleans, LA, hospital after Hurricane Katrina made landfall.

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.

Nicolas Cage has played a number of strange characters over the decades. Who can forget Castor Troy in “Face/Off?” Or Ghost Rider pissing fire in the superhero sequel ‘Spirit of Vengeance?’ Then, of course, there’s whatever the hell he was doing in “Season of the Witch.” But we can safely say that his upcoming role in the Amazon series “Highfire” might be his weirdest yet.