After five decades being one of the biggest movie stars in the world, becoming an icon due two iconic characters and lead two long successful franchises, Sylvester Stallone keeps puching his way to the top, this time finding success on the streaming world with the series Tulsa King.
Tulsa King debuted on Paramount+ on Nov. 13, topping all the expectations turning the best new linear cable premiere of 2022, which has leaded to its renewal for a second season.
“Tulsa King scored as the number one new series of the year, topping all others including the Game of Thrones sequel House of the Dragon,” said Paramount Media Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios president and CEO Chris McCarthy. “With its preview on Paramount Network, and on Paramount+, it shattered records, driving us to our biggest new signup day in history — which is why we instantly greenlit season two.”
“With the combination of the incomparable Sylvester Stallone and Taylor Sheridan’s darkly comedic twist on the beloved mobster genre, we have found our latest hit in ‘Tulsa King,’” said Tanya Giles, chief programming officer for Paramount Streaming.
Created by Taylor Sheridan, the series revolves around Dwight “The General” Manfredi, an old mobster released of prison after 25 years, who on his return, is sent to Tulsa by his mafia family to establish his own criminal empire.
The star of Rocky and Rambo has found a perfect vehicle that goes according his maturity as an actor, in a role that allows him to showcase all his possibilities as performer, making finally his dream come true of playing a gangster.
On a declaration to Hollywood Reporter, the actor stated:
“I’ve always wanted to play a gangster, But I wanted to play a unique gangster who is not like a gangster — at least, not when you meet him. He’s actually a guy who likes to cooperate. I thought about Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. Like, what if you woke up and you were now in a different profession but you had the same personality? That way, you don’t assume the automatic cliché of a thug who stares at you dead-eyed and doing the deep voice. But if he has to get heavy, it’s gonna get real heavy. So I said, ‘I’m gonna play him as close to myself as I’ve ever done in my life.’”
Tulsa king is streaming on Paramount+ on Sunday nights
Read more at Variety.