TravelGuides – Netflix is bringing back Joe Exotic

Joe Exotic and his notorious mullet are returning. 

Netflix has formally introduced that “Tiger King 2” will premiere on the streamer later this yr, bringing “more madness and mayhem.” The huge cat bombshell was dropped through Twitter on Thursday morning.

“Tiger King is coming back this year — and Season 2 promises just as much mayhem and madness as Season 1!” the streaming big hyped in the cryptic tweet.

Meanwhile, the unique “Tiger King” docuseries, which premiered in March of 2020, was one of many early hits of the pandemic earlier than “Ted Lasso” and “The Queen’s Gambit” — racking up views from a staggering 64 million households, as a inhabitants trapped indoors grew to become captivated by the weird story of Joe Exotic. 

The homosexual polygamist zookeeper and aspiring politician (actual title Joseph Allen Maldonado-Passage), 58, is at present incarcerated in a federal jail in Fort Worth, Texas, after being convicted of a murder-for-hire plot towards his rival, animal rights activist Carole Baskin, 60, who is herself the topic of hypothesis relating to her lacking husband, Don Lewis.

The complete sordid saga was one in every of “truth is stranger than fiction,” which is why the world was captivated.

While the primary “Tiger King” adopted the messy and outlandish story of Exotic and Baskin, “Tiger King 2” hasn’t launched a lot details about its material, however it would nonetheless contain the now-incarcerated Exotic and Baskin, in keeping with the streamer. 

Netflix has not specified the premiere date for “Tiger King 2” past “this year.” 

Meanwhile, the story will even be fictionalized on a sequence for NBC streamer Peacock. Called “Joe Exotic,” it would star John Cameron Mitchell (“Hedwig and the Angry Inch”), 58, within the title position and “SNL” star Kate McKinnon, 37, as Baskin. It doesn’t but have a premiere date. 

Nicolas Cage, 57,  was additionally set to play Exotic in a sequence for Amazon, however the eccentric actor has since confirmed that undertaking is now not occurring in the intervening time.