Don’t get your hopes up for Amazon’s tackle Tiger King‘s Joe Exotic. Variety has learned from would-be present star Nicolas Cage that Amazon has scrapped the sequence. While the scripts had been “excellent,” in keeping with Cage, Amazon reportedly felt the undertaking had turn into “past tense” after taking too lengthy to formulate. The firm had misplaced its likelihood to capitalize on the Netflix present’s success, to place it one other approach.

Amazon declined to remark. NBCUniversal’s Peacock service is believed to nonetheless have its personal Tiger King undertaking within the works, with Kate McKinnon starring as Carole Baskin.

It’s not a stunning resolution. Tiger King surged in recognition thanks each to its how-can-this-be-real subject material and its debut in late March 2020, proper as many pandemic lockdowns started. It might have been troublesome to recapture that zeitgeist. There’s additionally the matter of riffing on a rival service’s present. Amazon won’t have been eager to promote for Netflix, even when its personal sequence garnered essential acclaim.