Taylor Sheridan is bringing his latest show setting to Frisco.
FRISCO, Texas — The Taylor Sheridan Universe is coming to Frisco. Now we know a little bit more about what it will look like.
Frisco Mayor Jeff Cheney posted an update last week about the latest Sheridan-produced show, “Frisco King,” a spinoff of his Sylvester Stallone-starring “Tulsa King.” In the North Texas version, Samuel L. Jackson will take the leading role.
Cheney said the show will start filming in Frisco later this month. The premise, according to Cheney’s talks with producers, is a “‘fish out of water’ comedy where Jackson’s character gives up his NOLA roots” to start fresh in a “modern day Mayberry.”
“The Stallone character tells [him] it needs to be Frisco…San Francisco? No Frisco, Tx and here’s your golf polo to fit in,” Cheney said. “[The producers] did joke nobody knows the direction the script will take until Taylor writes it…even Taylor. They did say they would be portraying in a positive light and Frisco is one of the “characters” in the show that the community will be proud of.”
Cheney said the show will have post a casting call specifically for Frisco residents to play roles as background characters or in cameo appearances.
In case you’re catching up, this marks another North Texas-set and/or filmed Sheridan show, including “Yellowstone” and prequel “1883, “Landman,” “The Madison,” “Lioness” and the in-production “Rio Palo,” another “Yellowstone” spinoff.
For the Sheridan fans not from North Texas, Frisco, about 30 miles north of Downtown Dallas, has exploded in growth over the last 25 years, as the Dallas North Tollway inched northward. With the population boom brought a spate of new high schools, the Dallas Cowboys’ practice facility (“The Star”), the new PGA Frisco golf course and headquarters and dozens of other businesses and jobs.
A release date for “Frisco King” has not been announced just yet.