2024-10-08 17:02:11
In Tulsa King, Sylvester Stallone, over seventy-five, attempts a comeback in a series about the mafia. With some difficulty…
Summary
King of Tulsa is a series produced by Fundamental++ and Taylor Sheridan, whose first season, released in 2022, will be rebroadcast on television in France on the M6 channel in October 2024. Symptomatic of a series based on the casting of veteran movie stars, coming from an industry known for its ageism, depicts a Sylvester Stallone seventy-year-old, he plays a mafioso who seems overwhelmed by the world he discovers when he gets out of prison.
The scenario of Tusla King ? Dwight Manfredi, the hero played by Stallone (a name inspired by none other than former American president Dwight Eisenhower), is released after 25 years behind bars. He finds his old neighborhood in New York, now in the hands of mobsters who were children when he was arrested and tried. “There’s nothing left for you here, we can’t go back in time,” the new local godfather (Domenick Lombardozzi, of The thread). A perfect phrase for Manfredi-Stallone, who will then work to get back into the game after being exiled to Tulsa, in the dark confines of Oklahoma.
A scenario that allows Stallone to go back in time
To become the “King of Tulsa”, Sylvester Stallone hires a driver (Jay Will) and sets out to prove he can continue to make money in the outback by first getting involved in the local cannabis trade. Dwight doesn’t hesitate to use violence, determined to prove to New York’s new leaders that if he can make it in this hole, he’ll make it anywhere.
King of Tulsa it therefore relies almost entirely on movie star charisma and the mise en abyme of yet another Stallone comeback, trying to prove that he’s not an old Hollywood guy while his character attempts to prove that he’s not a mobster. state. Between sitcom clichés and highly inspired scenes Sopranothe writers didn’t forget to flatter the star’s ego. We will remember this passage in which a woman meets Dwight Manfredi and is surprised at his old age, saying she thought he was 55 (he later admits he is 20 years older). Whey for Sylvester Stallone.
In King of Tulsawe also like the hero’s discovery of a world that has completely changed while he was in prison. Sylvester Stallone repeatedly attempts humor, shaking his head at cell phones, credit cards and stores that don’t accept cash, his favorite way to make deals.
The series has been variously appreciated by critics, in France and in the United States. It gets an average of 89% on the reference site Rotten Tomatoes, but only 65% favorable opinions on Metacritic. If some media have praised a “perfect marriage between the actor and the material” in a series in which “Stallone fans will feel at home”, others highlight an abuse of “obvious jokes about Dwight’s age”, even a bunch of “cultural clashes”. drivel,” “dialogue that can politely be called “basic”,” or even “a sitcom,” with “underdeveloped supporting characters.”
The Times called it an “implausible, cheesy comedy-drama”, but still managed to rate it “entertaining”, but Variety deemed the series “too conventional and too bureaucratic to be notable”. USA Today was the harshest, concluding that “every plot point is so absurd, every line of dialogue so shoddy, that Tulsa is nothing more than a screeching engine.”
Accusations against Stallone on set
But it’s not just Dwight Manfredi who seems old-fashioned King of Tulsa. Last April the American media revealed that Paramount had opened an investigation against Sylvester Stallone, suspected of old-fashioned behavior and of having used derogatory language towards extras on the set of the second season. The study is based on accusations that appeared on social networks and according to reports that Stallone had called certain people “ugly”, “a barrel of lard” or even a “fat guy with a stick”. “Bring cute girls with me,” Stallone also reportedly asked the director King of Tulsa…
If no official complaint had been made at this stage, a casting manager would have already walked out of filming, claiming he had “resigned because the environment was clearly toxic in which [il] it wasn’t[t] it’s not comfortable for [lui]-himself or extras.” If the matter is taken seriously, a production source told CNN that Paramount prides itself on its “fair and respectful work environment.” Craig Zisk, director and executive producer of King of Tulsafor his part, he assured TMZ that “no insults were uttered”. Continues.
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