After playing an orc in Bright, Joel Edgerton has moved on to a far more chaotic creature from the Monster Manual: the fabled Florida Man. According to Deadline, the actor is set to star in and executive produce a limited series adaptation of Tom Cooper’s Florida Man: A Novel, a fictional tale of one such Floridian. Here’s the summary:
Florida, circa 1980. Reed Crowe, the eponymous Florida Man, is a middle-aged beach bum, beleaguered and disenfranchised, living on ill-gotten gains deep in the jungly heart of Florida. When sinkholes start opening on Emerald Island, not only are Reed Crowe’s seedy businesses–a moribund motel and a shabby amusement park–endangered, but so are his secrets. Crowe, amateur spelunker, begins uncovering artifacts that change his understanding of the island’s history, as well as his understanding of his family’s birthright as pioneering homesteaders.
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Given that the current top post on the Florida Man subreddit is “Florida Man Steals Cat Blood From Local Animal Clinic,” honestly sounds pretty tame. Do better, Florida Man. At least strip naked in public at some point.
