The city's name is about to be on a lot of streaming menus. Paramount+ said Thursday that "Frisco King," Taylor Sheridan's spinoff of "Tulsa King," will debut with two episodes on Friday, Dec. 18, according to The Dallas Morning News. The rest of the eight-episode season will be released weekly on Fridays into January.
Samuel L. Jackson returns as Russell Lee Washington Jr., a New Orleans hitman introduced in "Tulsa King." The streamer's official description says Washington arrives in Frisco and finds a "hustler's playground" under the polished surface of suburban life, recruiting a protégé, a driver and a widening circle of partners as his small schemes grow into a business.
Where it was shot
The production spent months filming in North Texas earlier this year, The Morning News reported, with work in Frisco as well as Dallas, Fort Worth, Denton, Keller and Southlake. Some filming also took place in Atlanta, where recent seasons of "Tulsa King" were made.
A 30-second teaser released with the date includes a couple of recognizable local sights, the paper said: the Frisco water tower and the Sandman Signature Plano-Frisco Hotel. In it, Sylvester Stallone, the star of "Tulsa King," shakes hands with Jackson's character.
A change of setting
The series was first planned as "NOLA King" and was to be set and filmed in New Orleans before Sheridan moved the story to Frisco and renamed it, according to The Morning News and Esquire.
