'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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'Tulsa King' Season 2 Embraces The Darhk, Welcoming Neal McDonough As A Series Regular; Rich Ting To Recur

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Tulsa King is adding to its cast for season two, and surely somebody cares. The Sylvester Stallone-starring series has brought on Arrowverse veteran and Sonic the Hedgehog actor Neal McDonough as a series regular, and Rich Ting in a recurring role.

McDonough, who played Damien Darhk in 45 episodes across Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow, will play Cal Thresher, one of Tulsa’s powerful and extremely territorial businessmen. He is also known as Howling Commando Timothy “Dum Dum” Dugan in the Marvel Cinematic Universe starting with Captain America: The First Avenger, including the Captain Carter universe featured in What If…? Recently, he did 7 episodes of 9-1-1: Lone Star and played President Dwight Eisenhower in the Death Valley portion of the Double Feature season of American Horror Story.

Ting will play Jackie Ming, a quiet but ruthless man with his own ambitions. He is probably best known for playing Bolo, the Hop Wei's primary muscle and assassin in the first season of Cinemax-turned-Max series Warrior or as Captain Iijima in the fourth season of Prime Video’s The Man in the High Castle. Recent credits include Magnum PI, Partner Track and The Old Man.

In the series. Stallone is New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi, who, after spending 25 years in prison, is unceremoniously exiled by his boss and relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Realizing the betrayal by his mob family was most certainly for their own interests over his, Dwight slowly builds a ragtag crew to help him establish a new criminal empire. The cast also includes Andrea Savage, Garrett Hedlund, Dana Delany, Martin Starr, Max Casella, Domenick Lombardozzi, Vincent Piazza, Jay Will, A.C. Peterson, and newly promoted Annabella Sciorra and Tatiana Zappardino. It is executive produced by Stallone, series creator Taylor Sheridan, showrunner-equivalent producing director Craig Zisk, Terence Winter, David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari, David Hutkin, Braden Aftergood and Keith Cox.

Sources: Variety, Deadline

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