Joe Exotic: Dennis Quaid Set to Play Tiger King Favorite Rick Kirkham in Peacock Limited Series
The cat’s out of the bag: Dennis Quaid is joining Peacock’s Joe Exotic limited series as Rick Kirkham, the reality show producer popularized in Netflix’s Tiger King docu-series.
Joe Exotic stars SNL‘s Kate McKinnon as big cat enthusiast Carole Baskin, who learns that fellow exotic animal lover Joe “Exotic” Schreibvogel (played by John Cameron Mitchell) 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.
In Tiger King, Kirkham recounted his experience making an ultimately ill-fated documentary about Joe Exotic’s tiger park in Oklahoma.
The cast also includes Brian Van Holt as zoo manager John Reinke, Nat Wolff as Joe’s first husband Travis Maldonado and Sam Keeley as Joe’s second husband John Finlay.
Though Joe Exotic centers on the same people that are featured in Netflix’s unscripted smash Tiger King, the NBCU series is actually based on Wondery’s Joe Exotic podcast, which was released in last March. Meanwhile, Amazon is also developing a Joe Exotic limited series, with Nicolas Cage on board to play the titular role.
