Samuel L. Jackson may soon be causing chaos in the French Quarter.
The actor is in talks to lead a spinoff of Taylor Sheridan's series Tulsa King set in New Orleans, Entertainment Weekly has learned.
Jackson is attached to star in and executive-produce the project, currently titled Nola King, with Dave Erickson, who works on both Tulsa King and Mayor of Kingstown. Erickson would serve as writer, showrunner, and executive producer.
Details of the series and plot are under wraps, but the Oscar winner will tee up the spinoff with a guest appearance on the upcoming third season of Tulsa King, Variety reported. Jackson's character would resemble Sylvester Stallone's Dwight "The General" Manfredi, a mobster who has just finished a 25-year stint in prison and is sent to lead a crime outpost in Tulsa, Oklahoma, by his new crime bosses, Chickie (Domenick Lombardozzi) and the wild-eyed capo Vince (Vincent Piazza), in Tulsa King season 1.
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Sheridan — the man behind Yellowstone, 1883, and pretty much everything on Paramount+ — serves as executive producer for Tulsa King alongside showrunner and writer Terence Winter, an Emmy-winning writer and producer who worked on The Sopranos.
If all goes as planned, the Tulsa King creator will also executive-produce Nola King alongside David C. Glasser of 101 Studios. MTV Entertainment Studios will produce.
Representatives for Paramount+ declined to comment to EW on the project.
Season 3 of Tulsa King is currently in production in Atlanta and Oklahoma.
