'Sylvester Stallone on Finally Getting to Play a Gangster
Finally Getting to Play a Gangster
Fifteen years
after “The Sopranos” concluded its run on HBO, a new gangster series has arrived on
Helmed by
“Yellowstone” creator Taylor Sheridan, the new series marks Sylvester Stallone’s first foray into the
“It’s very
hard to find something original,” Stallone said on Wednesday night at the “Tusla King”
“And when
it comes knocking on your door, you have to be a fool to say no
How will
“Tulsa King” stand apart from other gangster series? For one, it’s a Western that
Stallone’s character,
antiquated mafia capo Dwight Manfredi, is tasked with establishing a criminal organization in Tulsa,
“The idea
of taking him out of New York, so he’s not like a Tony Soprano,
Five decades
after Stallone auditioned for the roles of Paulie Gatto and Carlo Rizzi in “The Godfather,”
Don’t ask
me why, but there’s a romanticism about these kinds of characters
Co-showrunner Terence
Winter, who served as a writer and producer on “The Sopranos,” said Stallone is essentially
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