Sylvester Stallone’s Tulsa King has opened a writers’ room for Season 5, and the show’s makers are planning to move production from Atlanta to New York. It is a notable turn for a series that has largely been shot in Georgia and still has no official renewal announcement for a fifth season.
The timing is what makes the move matter. The new room is already working, speculation about a New York relocation picked up after Season 4 wrapped production, and the shift would alter both where the series is made and how Dwight Manfredi’s story is framed. Stallone plays Dwight, the New York mob capo who is sent to Tulsa after a 25-year prison sentence, so the setting change would bring the production closer to the character’s own roots.
Behind the creative logic is a harder practical calculation. Per reports, the plan is tied to both budget and storyline needs, with New York’s film incentives now offering an $800 million annual program under Gov. Kathy Hochul after two increases to the state’s tax break package. The state offers a 30% rebate, matching Georgia’s credit, and up to 40% for companies investing at least $100 million.
That incentive structure helps explain why the idea has gained traction, but it does not resolve the biggest gap around the series. No premiere date has been announced for Season 4, and the fifth season has not been officially ordered even though writers are already shaping it. That leaves Tulsa King in a strange place: the show is planning like a renewed series, but the network or studio has not yet said the word that makes the plan real.
If the renewal comes through, New York would be more than a backdrop. It would pull the production out of Atlanta, where the series has been made so far, and place Dwight’s world in the city that made his backstory believable in the first place. For now, the open writers’ room is the clearest sign that the franchise is moving ahead whether the formal announcement catches up quickly or not.
