Tiger King Casting Heats Up with Dennis Quaid and Kyle MacLachlan

Tiger King mania may seem like a distant coronavirus fever dream at this point, but Hollywood has not forgotten our one-time national obsession, and casting for competing Joe Exotic projects is just heating up.

The latest news comes from NBC’s Peacock streaming series. According to Deadline, “Sex and the City” and “Twin Peaks’” vet Kyle MacLachlan has been hired to play Carole Baskin’s husband, Howard Baskin. MacLachlan will join SNL alum Kate McKinnon as big cat lover and rumored murderess Carole Baskin. Actor/director John Cameron Mitchell, best known for creating the off-Broadway Rock musical, “Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” will play Baskin’s nemesis, Joe Exotic. Dennis Quaid has signed on to play Rick Kirkham, the producer behind a reality show Exotic tried to shop around.