Sylvester Stallone in “Tulsa King” Season 3.
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Tulsa King Season 3, created by Taylor Sheridan and starring Sylvester Stallone, wrapped up its season Sunday with Episode 10. What’s next for the hit Paramount+ crime drama and when will it premiere?
Tulsa King fans were surprised with big news the day Season 3 premiered on streaming on Sept. 21, when Paramount+ announced that it renewed Tulsa King for a fourth season. In the announcement, the streaming platform revealed that Emmy-winning Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire producer Terence Winter — who was the showrunner and writer on Tulsa King Season 1 and executive producer of the first five episodes of Tulsa King Season 2 — would be returning to the series as an executive producer and head writer for Season 4.
Note: Some major spoilers from “Tulsa King” Season 3, Episode 10 are discussed throughout the rest of this article.
Tulsa King Season 3 finds Stallone’s character, Dwight “The General” Manfredi, at odds with longtime Tulsa liquor baron Jeremiah Dunmire (Robert Patrick) after Dwight purchased a generations-old distillery from its owner Theo Montague (Brett Rice). Jeremiah was infuriated by the sale, given that Theo’s stash contained 150 barrels of 50-year-old bourbon that was worth $150 million.
Jeremiah’s first act of vengeance was to have his men brutalize Theo and burn up his mansion with him inside it. Jeremiah then at different points of the season attempted to murder Dwight and his family and his crew, but by Episode 10, the former New York City mob capo exacted revenge. Upset with how Jeremiah’s men killed Theo, he burned Jeremiah alive.
While Tulsa King Season 3 doesn’t end on a cliffhanger like Seasons 1 and 2, there are some loose ends in the subplots of Season 3 that could potentially spill into Season 4. Among them is how New York mob boss Quiet Ray Renzetti (James Russo) will respond to Dwight and his longtime friend Russell Lee Washington Jr. after they shot two of his hitmen.
Another potential storyline for Tulsa King Season 4 is how former Manfredi enemy-turned-uneasy ally Cal Thresher (Neal McDonough) will hold up his end of the bargain of being in Dwight’s pocket after he won the Oklahoma governor’s race.
The reason that the potential storyline appears to be taking shape is that a new cast member for the upcoming season of the series has been hired. According to Deadline, Gretchen Mol — who worked with Winter on Boardwalk Empire — has joined Tulsa King Season 4 as a series regular. Mol, Deadline reported, will play a Tulsa politician named Amanda Clark, so the character’s description seems tailor-made for the series’ political subplot.
Sylvester Stallone in “Tulsa King” Season 3.
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Production On ‘Tulsa King’ Season 4 Is Already Underway
Tulsa King Season 4 began production in November, but along with it came some unexpected drama. Deadline reported at the end of October that 26 of the series’ 600 crew members “were asked not to return for Season 4,” but most of them were expected to be replaced.
In the aftermath of the staffing purge, Variety reported that Tulsa King Season 4 was going into production without a showrunner and that Scott Stone, the executive in charge of production from Tulsa King’s production company, 101 Studios, is “the de facto showrunner.”
Variety interviewed former Tulsa King stunt coordinator Freddie Poole, who recalled for the trade publication a conversation he had with Stone between Seasons 3 and 4. Poole, who was one of the 26 employees who were let go before Season 4, told Variety, “[Stone] said, ‘We’re not going to have a showrunner. 101 is the showrunner.’ And I raised an eyebrow at that. That was the writing on the wall for me. I knew at that point I better start looking out for myself.”
Whether the lack of an official showrunner affects the production of Tulsa King Season 4 remains to be seen. If Season 4 follows the same production timeline as Season 3, though — work started on the show in March and the premiere episode was Sept. 21— that means that the show could return with the premiere episode of its fourth season as early as mid-May.
Of course, nobody will truly know the premiere date of Tulsa King Season 4 until Paramount+ makes it official. In the case of Tulsa King Season 3’s premiere date, Paramount announced the date of the Sept. 21 season premiere about seven weeks before, on July 31.
As fans await the announcement of Tulsa King Season 4’s debut, they have another reason to get excited. NOLA King, a Tulsa King spinoff series starring Tulsa King Season 3 guest star Samuel L. Jackson, is going into production in February of 2026, according to Deadline.
All three seasons of Tulsa are now available to stream on Paramount+.