via YouTube/Animal PlanetFilm & TV / NewsFilm & TV / NewsTiger King’s Joe Exotic will feature in a new Animal Planet documentarySurviving Joe Exotic picks apart the controversial former zoo-owner’s animal welfare practicesShareLink copied ✔️July 18, 2020July 18, 2020TextThom Waite Big cat enthusiast and former zoo owner Joe Exotic has become a cult figure since the airing of Netflix’s Tiger King earlier this year, famed for his wild style and set to be played by none other than Nicolas Cage in an upcoming show. However, a new Animal Planet documentary aims to explore the more problematic side of Joe Exotic (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage). Titled Surviving Joe Exotic, the doc will feature some of the animals that managed to “get out” of his zoo, while digging into his animal welfare practices. A trailer for Surviving Joe Exotic sees the film crew sit down with Exotic himself in May 2018, before he was sentenced to 22 years behind bars for animal abuse and murder-for-hire. Besides showing his animals in cramped cages – “It’s a labour of love,” Exotic says, “you really have to love the animals” – it also shows a clip of him shooting at a rooster, seemingly for crowing in the background of his interview. Watch the full preview below. The show itself is set to premiere July 25. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREEuphoria season 3 is a celebration of female degradationThis iPhone-shot doc exposes the ugliness of authoritarianism Nike Airmaxxing with multidisciplinary creative Jake Elias7 things to watch from trans film festival TITE10 films we’re excited to see at Cannes Film Festival 2026 Nike Airmaxxing with New York designer Annie LianExit8: A must-see Japanese horror about an endless commute ‘It’s just the aesthetic’: The Drama and the allure of violent subculturesWhat went down at our 25th anniversary screening of AmélieHow Daniel Blumberg turned water, wind and silence into a film scoreDazed x MUBI Cinema Club’s season finale: Father Mother Sister Brother6LILITH6: Inside the witchy femme mall cult of Forbidden FruitsEscape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy