Tulsa King Has a Spinoff, and Samuel L. Jackson is the Star
Here's a first look!
We’re living in a Golden Age of Taylor Sheridan projects. Yellowstone, 1923, 1888, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, Landman… you name it. He’s the patron saint of Paramount+. And now, we’ve got a new project, a Tulsa King spinoff called NOLA King and starring the Great Samuel L. Jackson. Jackson’s character will first make an appearance in Tulsa King in its third season, which releases this September.
The Hollywood Reporter has exclusive coverage. If you want the official (long) log-line:
“NOLA King follows Russell Lee Washington Jr. (Jackson) who, after befriending Dwight Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone) during a 10-year stint in federal prison, is sent to Tulsa by New York’s Renzetti crime family to take Dwight out once and for all. Inspired by what Dwight created in Tulsa and impressed with the possibilities of second chances, Washington returns to New Orleans, the home he abandoned 40 years ago, to rekindle his relationship with his family, friends, and to take control of the city he left behind. In so doing, he incurs the wrath of his former employers in New York, and makes himself vulnerable to old NOLA foes, both criminal and cop.”
I don’t know about you, but I’m into it.
Olivia Rutigliano
Olivia Rutigliano is an Editor at Lit Hub and CrimeReads. Her other work appears in Vanity Fair, Vulture, Lapham's Quarterly, AirMail, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Public Books, The Baffler, Bright Wall/Dark Room, Politics/Letters, The Toast, Truly Adventurous, and elsewhere. She has a PhD from the departments of English/comparative literature and theatre at Columbia University, where she was the Marion E. Ponsford fellow. She hosts the podcasst "Culture Schlock" at Lit Hub Radio. She is on instagram at @oldebean, twitter at @oldrutigliano, and bluesky at @oliviarutigliano.bsky.social.
