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

  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...

Two New Clips For 'The Thundermans Return' Have Been Released

 


The premiere of the The Thundermans movie The Thundermans Return is just 4 days away on Nickelodeon and Paramount+. Exact runtimes haven’t been released, but its linear premiere runs until 8:45 PM, a full hour and 45 minutes, so that’s promising. Still, two new clips have been released since the one that aired following the Danger Force finale, and that brings it to about six and a half minutes. As long as no more clips come, it should be enough that not too much is given away.

The first clip is a short one-minute sneak peek at the family’s off-time in Metroburg. Phoebe and Max, played by Kira Kosarin and Jack Griffo, are more concerned with the online chatter and magazine covers they’re in and on respectively, to play board games with their youngest sister, Chloe, played by Maya LeClark. The excitement we saw from Nora, played by Addison Riecke and Billy, played by Diego Velazquez upon their homecoming to Hiddenville for a normal high school life, especially socially, comes from the family having become entirely functioning on superheroing and them not having any sort of education in Metroburg. Billy has to realize he was being manipulated by the villain Squidman and his henchman. Barb (Rosa Blasi) likes the normalcy, while Hank (Chris Tallman’s couch shenanigans at the homecoming gains context as he had never gotten accustomed to their Metroburg couch in the three years they’d been there. There’s a crime alert but Max accidentally grabs the TV remote instead of the one that opens the doors to the crime lab and walks into the wall.

The second clip is the full meteor strike first seen as the movie’s teaser. The T-Force (which is the family) arrives and hold a pose. Each use their codenames and powers to destroy meteors. But Chloe is definitely ready to move on from “Thunderbaby”. Max’s vanity issues that will cause them to botch the evening mission that sends them back to Hiddenville are already popping up, but don’t do enough to hamper this mission. Even still, one of the stray meteorites goes karmic and strikes him in the crotch while he’s not paying attention.

While the promise of familiar characters and locations has been largely fulfilled based on everything revealed so far, it will be several new, sinister villains ready to wreak havoc and be defeated by Phoebe and Max to get back in good standing among the heroes following the mishap that strips them of duties. Series creator and executive producer Jed Spingarn, an alumnus of Jimmy Neutron and Pinky and the Brain, also writes The Thundermans Return, which is directed by Trevor Kirschner, who previously directed episodes of the series. The other executive producers are Dan Cross and David Hoge. Sean W. Cunningham and Marc Dworkin helped develop the story. The film premieres on March 7 on Paramount+ at normal content traffic time, 2:01 or 3:01 AM Eastern, before its previously-mentioned 7 PM Eastern premiere on Nickelodeon. The leisure clip comes from Collider who only has it on their native player, while the meteor fight can be watched below. 



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