Actor Samuel L. Jackson takes a jump to the small screen, starring in the Tulsa King spin-off, Nola King...
From Deadline
Samuel L. Jackson is the latest marquee star to enter the TV world of Taylor Sheridan. The Oscar-nominated actor is poised to lead his own Paramount+ series for the prolific creator titled NOLA King, sources tell Deadline. Written by Dave Erickson (Mayor of Kingstown), it is being plotted as a spinoff from the Sylvester Stallone hit Tulsa King. Jackson will appear in multiple episodes of Tulsa King‘s upcoming third season before headlining and executive producing the new series, from 101 Studios and MTV Entertainment Studios.
Details are sketchy but Jackson is believed to be playing Russell Lee Washington Jr. who, like Stallone’s Dwight “The General” Manfredi, comes from the crime world. He will go against Dwight in Tulsa before headling down to take over New Orleans.
Production on Season 3 of Tulsa King has been underway in Atlanta and Oklahoma for a couple of months. Jackson is expected to film his episodes in July, with production on NOLA King eying a February start, sources said. Erickson, who is showrunner on the current season of Tulsa King in addition to his duties as showrunner on Sheridan’s Mayor of Kingstown, serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner of NOLA King.
Under his overall deal with MTV Entertainment Studios, he is expected to transition from Tulsa King to the new series while continuing on Mayor of Kingstown. NOLA King executive producers also include Sheridan and 101 Studios’ David C. Glasser.
Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight (Stallone), just after he is released from prison after 25 years and unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop 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 to help him establish a new criminal empire in a place that to him might as well be another planet.
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