• Samuel L. Jackson will star in a New Orleans-set Tulsa King spinoff referred to as NOLA King.
• The collection will comply with Jackson's Russell Lee Washington Jr., an growing older hitman on the run from the New York mob, as he tries to reinvent himself within the Large Straightforward.
• The character was launched in Tulsa King season 3.

The success of Sylvester Stallone's Tulsa King proves but once more the dramatic potential of throwing a stranger into a wierd land.

The Paramount+ crime collection, created by Yellowstone mastermind Taylor Sheridan, stars Stallone as Dwight "The Normal" Manfredi, an growing older gangster who, after serving 25 years in jail, is ferried off to Tulsa, Okla., to construct a felony enterprise from scratch. As he makes an attempt to make heads and tails of an unfamiliar world, he cobbles collectively a ragtag group of native ne'er-do-wells and mafiosos to assist manifest his imaginative and prescient.

It's a easy premise that's simply replicable, which is why a New Orleans-set spinoff is within the works at Paramount+ with one other heavy hitter in Samuel L. Jackson. The spinoff, titled NOLA King, was first teased in 2024 by Tulsa King govt producer Terence Winter, and Jackson turned connected to the challenge in June 2025.

It was formally introduced by Paramount+ the next month, with the streamer revealing that the third season of Tulsa King would introduce Jackson's Russell Lee Washington Jr., the protagonist of NOLA King.

So, how did Tulsa King arrange NOLA King? What has Jackson stated concerning the challenge? And when does it come out? Beneath is all the pieces we learn about NOLA King.

What’s NOLA King about?

NOLA King will heart on Russell Lee Washington Jr., a hitman in his golden years who, like his pal Dwight, hopes to begin a brand new chapter in an unfamiliar metropolis. Although Lee grew up in New Orleans, he hasn't returned in additional than 4 many years. As with Tulsa King, the conflict of custom and modernity will little question make itself recognized.

"Impressed by what Dwight created in Tulsa and impressed with the probabilities of second possibilities, Washington returns to New Orleans, the house he deserted forty-years in the past, to rekindle his relationship together with his household and pals, and to take management of the town he left behind," reads the official synopsis. "In so doing, he incurs the wrath of his former employers in New York, and makes himself weak to previous NOLA foes, each felony and cop."

In an announcement, Stallone stated the spinoff elevates Tulsa King "past a mob boss collection, making a dynamic, family-driven franchise,” including that "Sam Jackson is the one option to anchor this new journey in NOLA."

How does Tulsa King arrange NOLA King?

Jackson's seasoned hitman was launched within the penultimate episode of Tulsa King's third season. After performing successful for Quiet Ray (James Russo), head of the the highly effective Renzetti crime household, he's ordered to take out Dwight. Since he's in debt to Quiet Ray, Lee is instructed he doesn't have a alternative.

However when Lee arrives in Tulsa, he can't convey himself to kill Dwight, who saved his life when the pair had been in jail a few years again. His refusal to carry out the hit places him at odds with Quiet Ray, who sends a recent pair of hitman to Tulsa to take out each Dwight and Lee. The previous friends get the bounce on the hitmen, and an invigorated Lee later volunteers to assist the Normal in his feud with native liquor magnate Jeremiah Dunmire (Robert Patrick).

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After taking out Dunmire, Lee considers his future. "Seeing what you've performed right here makes me wish to return to New Orleans and possibly begin one thing new," he says. "If the Normal can do it, how onerous may or not it’s?"

Understanding the Renzettis are sizzling on his path, Lee departs for New Orleans, the place he grew up. And will any of Dwight's crew go by the Large Straightforward? Properly, they need to hit him up. We love a crossover.

What has Samuel L. Jackson stated about NOLA King?

Talking with Colliderover the summer season, Jackson opened up about becoming a member of a Sheridan-produced present. The actor famous that he's a fan of the creator's ever-growing slate of collection for Paramount+, which, along with Yellowstone and its many spinoffs, embrace Mayor of Kingstown and Landman.

“Not less than 15 of these reveals are on my watchlist on a regular basis, so I'm actually completely happy to be in that universe," he stated. "I watched Tulsa King, and I preferred it even earlier than that concept got here up."

That was nonetheless very early within the growth of the collection, although, when he didn't even know that his character's title is Lee. "I don't know something about it, however I do know that I'm very anxious to leap into it and discover out what it's going to be,” he defined.

In a November 2025 chat with Jimmy Kimmel Live, he declared his want for the present to really shoot in New Orleans, noting that tax incentives may need NOLA King filming elsewhere. "Why you tryin' to work low cost?" he requested. "Let's go to New Orleans!"

Who's within the solid of NOLA King?

An official solid has but to be introduced by Paramount+, however we all know that Jackson will lead the collection as Lee, a hitman for the mob who needs to carve out a brand new path in his golden years.

Like Stallone, this would be the actor's first headlining function on a TV collection. “I suppose he bought to the purpose that I did that he’s performed just about all the pieces,” Stallone instructed PEOPLE in September 2025. “However at this age in life, you wish to be slightly bit extra grounded, regular, have your personal present so that you develop this factor, actually flesh it out as an alternative of working someplace for 10 days or a gig right here and there.”

Whereas we don't know who will probably be becoming a member of Lee in New Orleans, the character's look on Tulsa King makes it clear that his feud with Quiet Ray and the Renzetti crime household is much from over. We wouldn't be stunned if Russo's crime boss casts an extended shadow over the occasions of the present.

When does NOLA King come out?

A launch date for the present has but to be revealed, however Deadline reported in July 2025 that the plan was for filming to start in February 2026.

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