Florida man is the star of a new TV show. Warning: There may be nudity and alligators
It’s happening. Florida Man: The TV series.
A limited-run show based on Tom Cooper’s summer novel is taking shape, Deadline first reported.
Aussie Joel Edgerton will play the title character in the film, set circa 1980.
Plot? You want a plot? There is one, kind of.
But the series doesn’t revolve around the typical Florida Man antics, tripping over his pants during an arrest, jumping into a crocodile pit sans clothes, or strolling around a hotel naked saying he’s Batman.
Protagonist Reed Crowe is a middle-aged beach bum extraordinaire, with questionable ethics (sound familiar?). He owns a run-down motel and amusement park on “Emerald Island,” which is going through an end-of-life crisis.
When sinkholes begin to invade his territory, his life starts to go down the drain, pretty much literally.
Crowe is not alone on Emerald Island.
He also contends with a cast of unsavory characters, including drug dealers, trained assassins, old friends with dark secrets and of course, an ex-wife.
“There are curses. There are sea monsters. There are biblical storms. There’s something called the Jupiter Effect,” reads an Amazon description. “Ultimately, Florida Man is a generation-spanning story about how a man decides to live his life, and how despite staying landlocked and stubbornly in one place, the world nevertheless comes to him.”
We can’t wait. We hope it shoots in the Sunshine State, actually, so we can give Edgerton some tips.
This story was originally published September 23, 2020 at 5:09 PM.
