Joe Exotic, the central figure in the wildly popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, has apparently revealed that he would like either Brad Pitt or David Spade to portray him in a potential scripted movie or TV show about his life. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tiger King directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin confirmed that Joe (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) had previously shared his casting preferences for a hypothetical biopic - without realising there is a Joe Exotic limited TV series in active development, with Kate McKinnon set to play Carole Baskin. "He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him," Chaiklin claimed. "He doesn't refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as 'Joe Dirt.'"

#TigerKing = @DavidSpade Joe Dirt to #JoeExotic pic.twitter.com/JsvQgQVfSz

— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) March 30, 2020

At least one of these suggestions already has some support behind it, as several Tiger King fans have already identified the visual comparisons between Joe Exotic, the former G.W. Zoo owner who is currently serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison, and David Spade's cinematic alter ego, Joe Dirt, the janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream. Artist BossLogic even created a parody poster of a Tiger King and Joe Dirt mash-up. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/31/netflixs-tiger-king-murder-mayhem-and-madness-season-1-review"] Meanwhile, a whole host of other celebrity fans have been dream-casting themselves in various roles based on the hit Netflix series. Dax Shepard started the discussion by putting himself forward to star as Joe Exotic in "the eventual biopic," with fellow stars Edward Norton, Justin Long, and Jim Gaffigan also joining in on the casting conversation. The original Tiger King documentary consists of seven episodes running 40-50 minutes each and was released on March 20 on Netflix. In our review of Tiger King, we called it "a fascinating and depressing look inside a community of big cat fanatics," which would make a worthy addition to the watchlists of "true crime fans hungry for something different." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-true-crime-shows-and-movies-to-watch-online&captions=true"] For those that have already watched the hit show, read our follow-up piece to find out what happened to the colourful characters featured in the true-crime docuseries and take a look at our rundown of recommendations for other true crime shows and movies that are available to stream right now. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Joe Exotic, the central figure in the wildly popular Netflix docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, has apparently revealed that he would like either Brad Pitt or David Spade to portray him in a potential scripted movie or TV show about his life. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Tiger King directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin confirmed that Joe (real name Joseph Maldonado-Passage) had previously shared his casting preferences for a hypothetical biopic - without realising there is a Joe Exotic limited TV series in active development, with Kate McKinnon set to play Carole Baskin. "He would like Brad Pitt or David Spade to play him," Chaiklin claimed. "He doesn't refer to David Spade as David Spade — he refers to him as 'Joe Dirt.'"

#TigerKing = @DavidSpade Joe Dirt to #JoeExotic pic.twitter.com/JsvQgQVfSz

— BossLogic (@Bosslogic) March 30, 2020

At least one of these suggestions already has some support behind it, as several Tiger King fans have already identified the visual comparisons between Joe Exotic, the former G.W. Zoo owner who is currently serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison, and David Spade's cinematic alter ego, Joe Dirt, the janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream. Artist BossLogic even created a parody poster of a Tiger King and Joe Dirt mash-up. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/31/netflixs-tiger-king-murder-mayhem-and-madness-season-1-review"] Meanwhile, a whole host of other celebrity fans have been dream-casting themselves in various roles based on the hit Netflix series. Dax Shepard started the discussion by putting himself forward to star as Joe Exotic in "the eventual biopic," with fellow stars Edward Norton, Justin Long, and Jim Gaffigan also joining in on the casting conversation. The original Tiger King documentary consists of seven episodes running 40-50 minutes each and was released on March 20 on Netflix. In our review of Tiger King, we called it "a fascinating and depressing look inside a community of big cat fanatics," which would make a worthy addition to the watchlists of "true crime fans hungry for something different." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=best-true-crime-shows-and-movies-to-watch-online&captions=true"] For those that have already watched the hit show, read our follow-up piece to find out what happened to the colourful characters featured in the true-crime docuseries and take a look at our rundown of recommendations for other true crime shows and movies that are available to stream right now. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Update: Microsoft has now officially confirmed a Steam release for Sea of Thieves, but hasn't revealed a release date. An Xbox Wire post didn't adda release date or a price, but it did confirm that the game will feature cross-play with Xbox One and Windows Store versions: "We’re happy to confirm that cross play will allow Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam users to adventure together when Sea of Thieves launches on Steam, letting you assemble your perfect pirating crew, whatever their preferred platform." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Original Story: Sea of Thieves has received a Steam store page, without any formal announcement of the move from Microsoft. You can check out the page for yourself, which lists a planned release date of 'Coming Soon.' Rare's seafaring adventure was previously only available on PC via a purchase from the Microsoft Store or through the Xbox Play Anywhere scheme, which meant that if you purchased the game on your Xbox console, you could also play the game on your PC. The game is also part of the Xbox Game Pass for PC library, for those of you with an active subscription. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/19/sea-of-thieves-review-2020"] Other Xbox Games Studios games have arrived on Steam in the past, most recently Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It appears to be part of Microsoft's 'Play Anywhere' service-led strategy, which has famously eroded the barriers of platform exclusivity over the past few years, perhaps most notably with Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition and Cuphead launching on the Nintendo Switch. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/14/sea-of-thieves-the-seabound-soul-update-trailer"] For more on Sea of Thieves, check out our 2020 updated review of the game, which we called "an endless sea of possibilities." If you're already playing, check out our article covering recent updates to the game, which added firebombs and a new Tall Tale.  IGN has contacted Microsoft for comment. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who longs to one day be a Pirate Legend. Follow him on Twitter. 

Update: Microsoft has now officially confirmed a Steam release for Sea of Thieves, but hasn't revealed a release date. An Xbox Wire post didn't adda release date or a price, but it did confirm that the game will feature cross-play with Xbox One and Windows Store versions: "We’re happy to confirm that cross play will allow Xbox One, Windows 10 and Steam users to adventure together when Sea of Thieves launches on Steam, letting you assemble your perfect pirating crew, whatever their preferred platform." [poilib element="accentDivider"] Original Story: Sea of Thieves has received a Steam store page, without any formal announcement of the move from Microsoft. You can check out the page for yourself, which lists a planned release date of 'Coming Soon.' Rare's seafaring adventure was previously only available on PC via a purchase from the Microsoft Store or through the Xbox Play Anywhere scheme, which meant that if you purchased the game on your Xbox console, you could also play the game on your PC. The game is also part of the Xbox Game Pass for PC library, for those of you with an active subscription. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/03/19/sea-of-thieves-review-2020"] Other Xbox Games Studios games have arrived on Steam in the past, most recently Ori and the Will of the Wisps and Halo: The Master Chief Collection. It appears to be part of Microsoft's 'Play Anywhere' service-led strategy, which has famously eroded the barriers of platform exclusivity over the past few years, perhaps most notably with Ori and the Blind Forest Definitive Edition and Cuphead launching on the Nintendo Switch. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/11/14/sea-of-thieves-the-seabound-soul-update-trailer"] For more on Sea of Thieves, check out our 2020 updated review of the game, which we called "an endless sea of possibilities." If you're already playing, check out our article covering recent updates to the game, which added firebombs and a new Tall Tale.  IGN has contacted Microsoft for comment. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN who longs to one day be a Pirate Legend. Follow him on Twitter. 

Update: A new update has restored the files for Final Fantasy 9 on Steam, and the game is playable once again. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Original story: The latest update for Final Fantasy 9 on Steam has seemingly removed the entire game, making it unplayable. A handful of threads have been made on the Final Fantasy 9 General Discussion board on Steam, with all of them discussing the sudden disappearance of the game. The update, which went live at some point in the past 24 hours, has reduced the game’s file size to zero megabytes, effectively rendering it gone entirely. Square Enix has not issued official patch notes, but the SteamDB update tracker notes that on April 2 an update removed a long list of files. That long list appears to be every file in the game. Investigating myself, I’ve found that if you download Final Fantasy 9 from your Steam library, it requests 0 MB of disk space, and downloads instantly (because it pulls down next to nothing). With it installed, you’re able to load the launcher from which you choose screen resolution, but clicking ‘play’ simply shuts the launcher down and nothing happens. Steam itself recognises that the game has closed, and resets its big UI button from ‘Stop’ to ‘Play’. The PC Final Fantasy 9 community is relatively active, largely due to the fantastic Moguiri mod that makes the game look significantly more impressive than the PC port usually does. But without the actual game files, the mod is - as you’d expect - useless. Without official patch notes this seems a mistake on Square Enix’s end rather than an actual update. Or it’s a dreadful April Fool’s that deployed a day too late. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2016/05/13/ranking-the-final-fantasy-games"] For a PC Final Fantasy you can play right now, check out our review of the latest Final Fantasy 14 expansion, Shadowbringers, which cements the MMO as one of the very best in the genre’s long history. It also recently picked up a new raid based on Nier: Automata. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.

The latest update for Final Fantasy 9 on Steam has seemingly removed the entire game, making it unplayable. A handful of threads have been made on the Final Fantasy 9 General Discussion board on Steam, with all of them discussing the sudden disappearance of the game. The update, which went live at some point in the past 24 hours, has reduced the game’s file size to zero megabytes, effectively rendering it gone entirely. Square Enix has not issued official patch notes, but the SteamDB update tracker notes that on April 2 an update removed a long list of files. That long list appears to be every file in the game. Investigating myself, I’ve found that if you download Final Fantasy 9 from your Steam library, it requests 0 MB of disk space, and downloads instantly (because it pulls down next to nothing). With it installed, you’re able to load the launcher from which you choose screen resolution, but clicking ‘play’ simply shuts the launcher down and nothing happens. Steam itself recognises that the game has closed, and resets its big UI button from ‘Stop’ to ‘Play’. The PC Final Fantasy 9 community is relatively active, largely due to the fantastic Moguiri mod that makes the game look significantly more impressive than the PC port usually does. But without the actual game files, the mod is - as you’d expect - useless. Without official patch notes this seems a mistake on Square Enix’s end rather than an actual update. Or it’s a dreadful April Fool’s that deployed a day too late. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2016/05/13/ranking-the-final-fantasy-games"] For a PC Final Fantasy you can play right now, check out our review of the latest Final Fantasy 14 expansion, Shadowbringers, which cements the MMO as one of the very best in the genre’s long history. It also recently picked up a new raid based on Nier: Automata. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer. You can follow him on Twitter.

The DuckTales April Fool screenshots are so good because, at one point, it was a real game project.

The DuckTales April Fool screenshots are so good because, at one point, it was a real game project.

Spyjinx, a collaboration between Epic Games and J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot Entertainment has been revealed after laying dormant for years. It will be going into beta in select markets very soon. The game was initially revealed back in 2015 and was set for a 2016 release. Spyjinx missed that target and we hadn't heard much about the project until now, with the game receiving a surprise development update. The Spyjinx game overview goes into more detail about what kind of game this is - first off, it's a mobile title framed in a "secret world of espionage, thrilling heists, and crazy gadgets." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=spyjinx-art-and-screenshots&captions=true"] As for genre, Spyjinx is referred to as a "mix of action-strategy gameplay, RPG character development, and head-to-head multiplayer." The images tease an experience similar to games like Clash of Clans, with mention of "taking down rival bases" as you forge your career as a spy mastermind. You can customize your base to "stop other Mastermind's agents from stealing what you rightfully stole." In doing so you'll build up a squad of agents including hackers, brawlers and other specialities, equipping them with gadgets and sending them on infiltration missions. It appears Epic has been teasing Spyjinx in plain sight, as the base shown on the new game's website is identical to The Shark, the Agency base from Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/11/jj-abrams-celebrates-hideo-kojima-and-death-stranding"] You can check out the full beta test announcement blog here, which talks about how the game will launch into closed beta in Malaysia and later Australia on iOS. You can sign up to learn when Spyjinx is coming to your region using a link in the blogpost above. This isn't the first time J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot have collaborated with a video game developer. You may remember the Super 8 Interactive Teaser that was added to Portal 2 as a piece of promotional bonus content, created by Valve. J.J. Abrams also spoke at DICE in 2013 and announced a partnership of sorts with Gabe Newell to work on movies related to Valve's intellectual properties, though that seemingly never came to fruition. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.

Spyjinx, a collaboration between Epic Games and J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot Entertainment has been revealed after laying dormant for years. It will be going into beta in select markets very soon. The game was initially revealed back in 2015 and was set for a 2016 release. Spyjinx missed that target and we hadn't heard much about the project until now, with the game receiving a surprise development update. The Spyjinx game overview goes into more detail about what kind of game this is - first off, it's a mobile title framed in a "secret world of espionage, thrilling heists, and crazy gadgets." [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=spyjinx-art-and-screenshots&captions=true"] As for genre, Spyjinx is referred to as a "mix of action-strategy gameplay, RPG character development, and head-to-head multiplayer." The images tease an experience similar to games like Clash of Clans, with mention of "taking down rival bases" as you forge your career as a spy mastermind. You can customize your base to "stop other Mastermind's agents from stealing what you rightfully stole." In doing so you'll build up a squad of agents including hackers, brawlers and other specialities, equipping them with gadgets and sending them on infiltration missions. It appears Epic has been teasing Spyjinx in plain sight, as the base shown on the new game's website is identical to The Shark, the Agency base from Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2019/12/11/jj-abrams-celebrates-hideo-kojima-and-death-stranding"] You can check out the full beta test announcement blog here, which talks about how the game will launch into closed beta in Malaysia and later Australia on iOS. You can sign up to learn when Spyjinx is coming to your region using a link in the blogpost above. This isn't the first time J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot have collaborated with a video game developer. You may remember the Super 8 Interactive Teaser that was added to Portal 2 as a piece of promotional bonus content, created by Valve. J.J. Abrams also spoke at DICE in 2013 and announced a partnership of sorts with Gabe Newell to work on movies related to Valve's intellectual properties, though that seemingly never came to fruition. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

Jordan Oloman is a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him on Twitter.