Tampa’s Carole Baskin Sues Netflix Over “Tiger King” Season 2
Carole Baskin has already dealt a blow to Joe Exotic from the “Tiger King” series. Now, she’s suing Netflix over the production of a second season.
The lawsuit against Netflix and Royal Goode Productions was filed in federal court in U.S. District Court’s Middle Florida division. The purpose is to stop the use of footage taken of Carole Baskin and Big Cat Rescue in the second season of “Tiger King.”
Production began in September, which Baskin claims to be a breach of contract. Her contention is that the contract only covered use of footage in one series.
Howard Baskin wrote about the suit against producers Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin on the Big Cat Rescue website:
“Our agreement to participate with Goode and Chaiklin was expressly limited to using our film footage in a single documentary motion picture. Even giving them the benefit of the doubt that TK1 is a legitimate documentary motion picture, that was the extent of our agreement. We made it very clear to Goode and Chaiklin that we had no desire or intent to be involved in TK2. When Netflix released its Official Tiger King 2 Trailer last week, we were shocked to see that we were going to be a central theme of the sequel and they were using the film footage again without our permission.”
The first season, from 2020, heavily covered Carole Baskin’s Big Cat Rescue and Joe Exotic. Exotic was a big cat breeder and had a private zoo in Oklahoma. Joe Exotic was sentenced to prison for hiring a hitman to kill Carole Baskin. Since then, Baskin has taken possession of and sold the property that held the zoo once owned by Joe Exotic.
Now, Netflix is promoting their second season of “Tiger King.” The first season far different than the Baskins were told it would be. They were told it would be about the big cat trade. Baskin alleges It was more of a “salacious and sensational” production about the battle between Baskin and Joe Exotic.
[Source: Big Cat Rescue/TBBJ]
Here are some photos of some of the residents of Big Cat Rescue
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