PETA Urges Kate McKinnon, UCP Executives Not to Use Live Animals in Scripted Tiger King Series

In the letter to UCP and Wilshire Studios president Dawn Olmstead, as seen on The Wrap, Thomasson detailed several ways wild animals suffer when being used for entertainment.

“Most wild animals do everything that they can to avoid humans, but those used by trainers are forced into close proximity with their captors and are also deprived of their families, their freedom, and anything remotely natural to them,” she wrote.

She added: “When no longer deemed ‘useful,’ many animals used for film or TV are dumped at seedy roadside zoos, including the chimpanzees seen in Tiger King. Investigations have uncovered animals being whipped and kept in deplorable conditions by animal suppliers.”

Back in November, Universal Content Productions announced that an adaptation of the Wondery podcast Joe Exotic was in the works with the Saturday Night Live star, 36, portraying Joseph Maldonado-Passage’s nemesis, Carole Baskin, according to Variety.

The audio source material follows the two subjects, who have gained newfound notoriety with the arrival of Netflix‘s trending docu-series, Tiger King.

The stranger-than-fiction series on the story — which will chronicle the criminal spiral of the former Oklahoma zookeeper (Maldonado-Passage), who was convicted of concocting a murder-for-hire plot to kill his animal-rights activist rival (Baskin) — is still in development, according to TVLine and there is currently no network or streaming platform attached yet to the project.

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