'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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Taylor Sheridan Series 'Landman' Adds Demi Moore

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Taylor Sheridan’s newest Paramount+ series Landman already had quite a lead in Billy Bob Thornton. Now the series has cast someone with matching or surpassing star power in Ghost star Demi Moore.

She will be playing the role of Cami in a series regular capacity. Cami is a friend of Thornton’s Tommy Norris, and wife of one of the most powerful oil men in Texas. Landman, based on the Boomtown podcast, is set in the famous boomtowns of West Texas. It is a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the oil rig business, an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires fueling a boom so monumentally reshaping our climate, economy, and geopolitics. It is co-created by Christian Wallace, doing so with Sheridan.

“Demi Moore is an iconic and extraordinary talent,” said Chris McCarthy, President and CEO, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. “We are thrilled to have her join Billy Bob Thornton and the star-studded cast of Landman, our next epic series from Taylor Sheridan.” The cast also includes Ali Larter, Michelle Randolph, Jacob Lofland, and the recently-announced Kayla Wallace, James Jordan, Mark Collie and Paulina Chávez.

First known for such Brat Pack films as Blame It On Rio, St. Elmo's Fire, and About Last Night..., Moore’s stardom was solidified by Ghost and had further success with A Few Good Men, Indecent Proposal, and Disclosure.  She would take on voice roles in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Her most recent film was The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, playing Nicolas Cage’s ex-wife in the metafilm (the movie within the movie). On television, Moore did 7 episodes of the Fox series Empire, five episodes voicing General on HBO’s animated series Animals, and starred in the Peacock launch series adaptation of Brave New World. She can currently be seen can be seen in the second season of Ryan Murphy’s FX anthology series Feud, subtitled Capote vs. The Swans as socialite and former showgirl and radio actress Ann Woodward, infamously accused of murdering her husband in 1955. Her next film is The Substance, alongside Margaret Qualley.

Sheridan, Wallace, Thornton, David Glasser, David Hutkin, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, Geyer Kosinski, Dan Friedkin and Jason Hoch all serve as executive producers, as do Scott Brown and Megan Creydt for Texas Monthly, and Peter Feldman is co-executive producer. The production companies are MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, and Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions.

Source: Deadline

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