Dennis Quaid has signed on to Peacock’s upcoming Joe Exotic limited series.
The Right Stuff and Rookie actor will play Rick Kirkman, an reality show producer.
The tentatively titled Joe Exotic has recently declared John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) in the role of zoo owner Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel, Kate McKinnon (Saturday Night Live) as his rival Carole Baskin, Brian Van Holt (Deputy) as GW Zoo worker John Reinke, Nat Wolff (The Stand) as Joe’s husband Travis Maldonado, and Sam Keeley (Misfits) as another of Joe’s husbands, John Finlay. The show is written and produced by Etan Frankel (Shameless).
The series depends on the Wondery digital recording Joe Exotic, which focuses on Baskin, “a big cat enthusiast, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe ‘Exotic’ Schreibvogel is breeding and using his big cats for profit. She sets out to shut down his venture, inciting a quickly escalating rivalry. But Carole has a checkered past of her own and when the claws come out, Joe will stop at nothing to expose what he sees as her hypocrisy.”
Joe Exotic turned into an easily recognized name thanks of Netflix’s hit documentary Tiger King, which started spilling toward the beginning of the Covid pandemic last March.
No debut date has yet been set for the Peacock series.