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“It was a pleasant surprise and a great source of pride to see Oklahoma City so well-represented in our nation’s inaugural program,” OKC Mayor David Holt said in a statement. “From our neighborhoods to our Indigenous culture to our skyline, OKC was all over it. My gratitude to everyone who made it possible!”

MovieMaker's annual list of "Best Places to Live and Work as a Moviemaker" included Oklahoma City at #15 of the big

 cities list, outpacing cities such as San Diego, Seattle, Kansas City and Portland. The magazine highlighted not only the state's tax rebate incentive but also the

 "talent and work ethic" of local crews, according to filmmaker Mickey Reece as quoted in the piece, as well as OKC's "vintage theaters, passionate film societies,

 and the state’s largest film festival, deadCenter.

2021 Pride Festival, Scissortail Park, Oklahoma City:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyl_OVMCVx4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyl_OVMCVx4)

Taylor Sheridan (Yellowstone) is producing a scripted drama for the Paramount network called The Tulsa King starring Sylvester Stallone.

The story is about an older gangster who served time to protect mafia bosses then relocates to Tulsa after prison and starts his own mob crew. Filming has been taking place in OKC and Tulsa. Stallone has been sighted at Penn Square Mall and other places around the state.

Just saw that they will be filming at this empty saloon at 4120 Newcastle Road. Permit is for a new sign to be placed on the building throughout filming.--OKCTalk.com--04-22-2022.

Also being shot at Prairie Surf Media Studios, Oklahoma City.  Full link:  https://www.poncacitynow.com/paramount-plus-series-starring-sylvester-stallone-will-film-in-tulsa-oklahoma-city/ (https://www.poncacitynow.com/paramount-plus-series-starring-sylvester-stallone-will-film-in-tulsa-oklahoma-city/)

I guess they can go back to calling it "Kansas City King" since it decided not to have anything to do with production in Tulsa or Oklahoma.  Not that there was anything to do with Tulsa in the first place.

https://www.looper.com/1148186/everything-tulsa-king-gets-wrong-about-tulsa/

Could it have anything to do with the hot weather? Possibly.

Taylor Sheridan’s Tulsa King is reportedly pulling up stakes from Oklahoma, and filming elsewhere for its second season on the Paramount+ series. Rachel Cannon, founder and co-CEO of Oklahoma City-based production company Prairie Surf Media confirmed to The Oklahoman that the production won’t return to film in Oklahoma.

Tulsa King star Sylvester Stallone took aim at the heat — or maybe Oklahoma in general — on Instagram.

“Being in Oklahoma has definitely prepared me for a lifetime in hell if I ever got sent there,” Stallone wrote in an exchange with comedian Andrew Dice Clay on July 24.

If it was the weather, Oklahoma City’s daytime temperature was higher than 90 degrees on 24 days in July, according to Weather.com. Tulsa was hotter hitting at least 100 degrees on 18 days. July was the most oppressive part of Tulsa King’s three-month filming period.

Co-star Barry Corbin noted the heat, too, comparing it to Dallas-Fort Worth’s.

“It’s no worse than it is here, but it’s miserable here, too,” Corbin said in July.

Season one showrunner Terence Winter told the Tulsa World last week that he and the crew had no idea how hot it would be.

“I don’t think anybody did,” Winter said. “When we first got there, it was freezing and then, within days, it was 106 degrees and then stayed that way for like five months. You guys are probably used to that, but we were like, ‘What the hell just happened?’”

Most filming took place in Oklahoma City because of sound stage availability, Winter said.

Paramount+ has not announced when or where filming is expected to begin for the series’ second season.

Tulsa King could be the first major Sheridan project to move from the region in which it’s set.

101 Studios, which produces Tulsa King, is headquartered in Beverly Hills.

Jeanette Stanton, director of the Oklahoma Film + Music Office, told The Oklahoman the show has not resubmitted its application for the state film incentive.

“After they [were] renewed, they did not contact our office about filming Season 2 here,” she said.

In Tulsa King, Stallone stars as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, a 75-year-old New York gangster newly released after serving a 25-year prison sentence. Manfredi is banished by his former boss’ son to Tulsa, where he sets out to establish a new criminal empire.

Tulsa King is one of several projects in the works by Sheridan, the Weatherford resident who co-created Yellowstone and its sequels. It’s the largest scripted television series to be produced in Oklahoma using the incentives under the Filmed in Oklahoma Act of 2021, The Oklahoman reported.

Sheridan has done filming for Yellowstone in 1883 in the Fort Worth area. His latest project, 1883: The Bass Reeves Story, is being filmed in North Texas.

Stanton said Tulsa King will leave a mark on the state’s film industry.

“There’s so much wonderful content being made [here], and we’re not suffering at all for applications,” she said. “Oklahoma’s definitely on everybody’s map.”