While many have enjoyed the show, they’ve also claimed that Exotic’s life would be a perfect fit for a movie, and it seems the man himself wholeheartedly agrees. In fact, the big cat breeder even knows who he’d like to play himself in a big-screen adaptation, with Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin, the directors of Tiger King, telling the Hollywood Reporter who Exotic had expressed he’d like to play himself in a potential biopic.
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“He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him,” Chaiklin claims, following up her claim by hilariously stating that “He doesn’t refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as ‘Joe Dirt.’” For fans of early 2000s comedy, they’ll no doubt know that Spade starred in a film called Joe Dirt, where he played an incredibly over the top persona not completely unlike Joe Exotic himself.
Both picks would no doubt lead to hilarious results, especially as Pitt and Spade would both have the larger than life nature to pull off Exotic perfectly. It seems the likelihood of Tiger King leading to a biopic in the future is looking increasingly likely, with a TV adaption of the story already in the works.
Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness is available to stream now, exclusively on Netflix.
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Source: The Hollywood Reporter
