Get ready, all you cool cats and kittens — we’re getting a scripted series all about Tiger King star Joe Exotic with Nicolas Cage as the lead.

According to Variety, who first reported the news, the eight-episode series will star Nicolas Cage as Joe Exotic, and will be based on the Texas Monthly article “Joe Exotic: A Dark Journey Into the World of a Man Gone Wild,” by Leif Reigstad.

The article was optioned by Paul Young and Dan Laguna, who was previously the showrunner on the Emmy-nominated Netflix mockumentary series American Vandal. Laguna will serve as writer, showrunner and executive producer for the project, with Young executive producing.

In addition to starring in the project, Nicolas Cage will likewise act as an executive producer.

The story of the scripted series will center on Joe Schreibvogel, a.k.a Joe Exotic, an eccentric, exotic zookeeper in Oklahoma who fights to keep his park even at the risk of losing his sanity. The series will live in the lion’s den with Joe, explore how he became Joe Exotic, and how he lost himself to a character of his own creation.

The role as Joe Exotic will be the first television role of Nicolas Cage’s career, though he’s had quite a long and somewhat inexplicable career in film, with over 100 films of wildly — and we mean wildly — varying quality.

This project starring Nicolas Cage is the second scripted series tied to Tiger King that has been announced, and the third series overall. The first scripted series has Kate McKinnon attached to star in and executive produce a series based on the Wondery podcast “Joe Exotic,” with McKinnon attached to play Carole Baskin.

The third series is an unscripted follow-up at Investigation Discovery, which has been described as a true-crime ‘sequel’ of a sorts to the Netflix’s docuseries.