EXCLUSIVE: Paramount+’s mob drama Tulsa King, starring Sylvester Stallone, will have a new showrunner for Season 2.
Terence Winter is stepping down from the post while remaining an executive producer on the series from Yellowstone‘s Taylor Sheridan and focusing on other projects, including a top-secret streaming series with frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese and a limited series about New York Mets’ historic 1986 run, which has been a passion of his for a while, I hear.
Search is under way for a new Tulsa King showrunner. According to sources, Winter’s departure as showrunner stems from creative differences.
As evident from Deadline’s interview with Winter ahead of Tulsa King‘s November premiere, he and Sheridan, on whose initial idea the show was based, had different visions for the series and the main character. (In the interview, Winter also speaks about how much he enjoyed working with Stallone, occasionally dropping Rocky questions that Stallone was happy to answer.) Renewed for a second season only three episodes into its freshman run, Tulsa King follows New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi (Stallone) just after he is released from prison to set up shop in Tulsa, OK.
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