'Tulsa King' Spinoff 'NOLA King' With Samuel L. Jackson In The Works

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  Saaaaaalutations! If you thought Paramount+ nabbing Sylvester Stallone to star in Tulsa King said something about what television had become, hear this out: Tulsa King has a New Orleans-set spinoff in development, aptly titled NOLA King , and it’s set to star Samuel L. Jackson. Exact details of NOLA King are under wraps, but Jackson’s character,   Russell Lee Washington Jr.,   has been described as similar to Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi. The series would be set up by a recurring arc in Tulsa King ’s third season, currently in production in Oklahoma and Atlanta, which explains why Variety ’s  telling didn’t call the single appearance they implied as a backdoor pilot. Jackson is expected to film his episodes in July, with production on NOLA King looking at a February start. Dave Erickson will be writing the spin-off after previously taking over showrunner duties on  Tulsa King starting with this new third  season.  He is expected to transition fro...
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William Friedkin's Final Film, ‘The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial' Acquired By Paramount+

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Paramount+ has picked up Academy Award winning-director William Friedkin’s last film, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial for all international territories where the service is currently live, the company announced Sunday. That includes the United States, Canada, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, France and South Korea. However, for the United States, there will be a branding difference: It's going to be a Showtime film.

The film, Friedkin's last writing and directorial effort, is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Hermon Wouk, just had its world premiere at the 80th Venice Film Festival Sunday night. It stars Kiefer Sutherland, who stars on the service's series Rabbit Hole, Jason Clarke, Jake Lacy, Monica Raymund, Lewis Pullman, Jay Duplass, Tom Riley and the late Lance Reddick.

In The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Clarke plays Barney Greenwald, a skeptical lawyer for the navy who reluctantly agrees to defend Lt. Steve Maryk, played by Lacy, a First Officer facing court-martial for taking over the U.S.S. Caine from its authoritarian captain, Sutherland's Lt. Philip Francis Queeg during a violent storm while at sea. As the trial goes on, Greenwald's concern grows, beginning to questions if the events at hand were a true mutiny or simply the courageous acts of a group of sailors who could no longer trust their increasingly unstable leader.

Friedkin died on August 7, weeks shy of his 88th birthday, and was best known for directing films such as The Exorcist and The French Connection. His last scripted film prior to Court-Martial was 2011's Matthew McConaughey-starrer Killer Joe. In a way, this marks a return to Showtime for the director, as he directed a remake of 12 Angry Men for the network, which premiered in August 1997. It earned him an Emmy nomination. He'd also directed two episodes of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, which reunited him with his To Live and Die In L.A. star William Petersen: season 8's "Cockroaches" and the 200th episode the next season "Mascara".

Showtime's acquisition of the film, produced under Paramount Global’s newly-revived Republic Pictures label, continues one of its latest directives to dive back into making television films, like Heist 88 in a few weeks, after a long time away focusing on original series.

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