Exclusive: Sylvester Stallone is moving into scripted television.
Deadline understands that the actor, whose Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1977, is in negotiations to star in and exec produce Kansas City, a drama series from Taylor Sheridan and Terence Winter for Paramount+.
It marks Stallone’s first major lead television series, having guested on a number of classic shows such as Police Story and Kojak back in the ’70s and more recently in series such as This Is Us.
Kansas City brings together Sheridan, who is fast becoming one of the most significant television creators in the business with series such as Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown and 1883, and Winter, The Sopranos writer and Boardwalk Empire creator.
The series will be produced by 101 Studios, the company behind Sheridan’s universe of series, and MTV Entertainment Studios.
Kansas City follows a New York City Italian mobster, played by Stallone,...
Deadline understands that the actor, whose Rocky won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1977, is in negotiations to star in and exec produce Kansas City, a drama series from Taylor Sheridan and Terence Winter for Paramount+.
It marks Stallone’s first major lead television series, having guested on a number of classic shows such as Police Story and Kojak back in the ’70s and more recently in series such as This Is Us.
Kansas City brings together Sheridan, who is fast becoming one of the most significant television creators in the business with series such as Yellowstone, Mayor of Kingstown and 1883, and Winter, The Sopranos writer and Boardwalk Empire creator.
The series will be produced by 101 Studios, the company behind Sheridan’s universe of series, and MTV Entertainment Studios.
Kansas City follows a New York City Italian mobster, played by Stallone,...
- 12/6/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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