Here's a sentence you probably didn't have on your broadcast wars bingo card a few years ago: Sylvester Stallone is headed to Tulsa.
The “Rocky” star will take on his first major television role in “Tulsa King,” a new Paramount+ series from creator Taylor Sheridan. The mob drama stars Stallone as a lifelong gangster who is forced to move to Oklahoma to set up a new gambling and racketeering operation for his old family (as if Lincoln Riley hadn't left the state with enough money). problems to deal with). Once he gets there, he finds himself making a big splash in the criminal underbelly of the Sooner State's second-largest city like only Sylvester Stallone can.
He is a cultured man who enjoys the classics. He hangs out "with guys who own a pot shop." In other words, Sylvester Stallone's Dwight "The General" Manfredi from Paramount+'s upcoming Tulsa King is a "different animal than you'd normally see in a gangster movie."
Creator: Taylor Sheridan
Stars: Dashiell Connery, Tatiana Zappardino, Hartleigh Buwick
“I do a very different interpretation,” Stallone told reporters Wednesday during the Tulsa King TCA panel. “I grew up around some of these mugs in Philly. I've always been rubbing elbows with them in South Philly, so I have a good understanding of street life. But this is not a stereotypical gangster show. My gang is made up of cowboys, Indians…a bunch of complete misfits in a sense.”
Tulsa King follows New York mob kingpin Dwight "The General" Manfredi (Stallone) after he is released from prison and exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a crew from a group of unlikely characters to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him could very well be another. planet.
“The goal was to take Dwight as far away from the New York experience as possible,” explained executive producer Terence Winter. “It's not so much about a mob family as it is about one mobster in particular, Dwight. The conflicts he faces are very different. In a typical mob show, they might fight other mob families. In Tulsa he is alone and he hopes to earn money that he sends to New York”.
Tulsa seemed perfect to me,” Winter added onstage. “It is truly the center of America, as different from New York City as it gets. You will not mistake it for anything other than what it is with its wide open skies…. it's like a strange landscape to put it on."
Stallone said the project came about after he met executive producer Taylor Sheridan years ago while horseback riding in California. “He was working at Sicario at the time. He wanted me to write the script for Rambo. He was very successful with Yellowstone. One day he called me and shared three sections. I said yes. It was very fast".
Filming his first regular role in a television series was a bit of an adjustment. "It's harder, faster and longer," he said. “They do not follow the natural order of things. You have to keep your energy up. In the amount of time we did 10 episodes, it's equivalent to doing 5 Rockys in a row without a break in time."
According to the show's official synopsis, "Tulsa King" follows "New York mob kingpin Dwight 'The General' Manfredi (Stallone) just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to establish a store in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, Dwight slowly builds a 'crew' from a group of unlikely characters, helping to establish a new criminal empire in a place that for him could well be another planet”.
In addition to Stallone, "Tulsa King" stars Andrea Savage, Martin Starr, Jay Will, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, A.C. Peterson, Garrett Hedlund, and Dana Delany. The series is the latest Paramount+ series from Taylor Sheridan, who has a serious claim to the title of the busiest man on television. The Oscar-nominated screenwriter is best known for creating "Yellowstone" and its spinoff "1883," but he has a total of nine shows in various stages of development with the studio, including the upcoming "Yellowstone" spinoffs "1923." " and "6666". .”
Stallone fans also have a lot to look forward to. In addition to his weekly presence on your television screens, in 2023 the action legend will reprise his role as Stakar Ogord in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” and playing Barney Ross for the last time in “The Expendables 4 ”.
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