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Sylvester Stallone to Star in First Television Series, Mario Puzo's OMERTA
Sylvester Stallone is headed to the small screen. The three-time Oscar nominee is finalizing a deal to star in Antoine Fuqua's TV adaption of Mario Puzo's Omerta, the final book in the author's mafia trilogy that started with The Godfather and The Last Don. Stallone is expected to play the mafia head at the center of the story.
A network is not yet attached, but sources say the pilot could film as early as this summer. Those same sources suggest the project will soon be shopped to cable and streaming services. The book on which it's based was published posthumously in 2000, a year after the two-time Oscar-winning author's death.
The move marks Stallone's first scripted TV series. He's currently attached as an executive producer to NBC's unscripted fitness competition Strong, which debuted to mediocre numbers earlier this month. Years earlier, he co-hosted boxing reality series The Contender with Sugar Ray Leonard for the same network.
Though Stallone failed to snag an Academy Award for his 2015 turn as Rocky Balboa in Ryan Coogler's Creed, the role did earn the 69-year-old star heaps of critical praise and thrust him back into the award-season spotlight.
Sylvester Stallone Heads to the Small Screen to Star in Antoine Fuqua's TV adaption of Mario Puzo's Omerta
Sylvester Stallone is headed to the small screen. The three-time Oscar nominee is finalizing a deal to star in Antoine Fuqua's TV adaption of Mario Puzo's Omerta, the final book in the author's mafia trilogy that started with The Godfather and The Last Don. Stallone is expected to play the mafia head at the center of the story.
A network is not yet attached, but sources say the pilot could film as early as this summer. Those same sources suggest the project will soon be shopped to cable and streaming services. The book on which it's based was published posthumously in 2000, a year after the two-time Oscar-winning author's death.
The move marks Stallone's first scripted TV series. He's currently attached as an executive producer to NBC's unscripted fitness competition Strong, which debuted to mediocre numbers earlier this month. Years earlier, he co-hosted boxing reality series The Contender with Sugar Ray Leonard for the same network.
Though Stallone failed to snag an Academy Award for his 2015 turn as Rocky Balboa in Ryan Coogler's Creed, the role did earn the 69-year-old star heaps of critical praise and thrust him back into the award-season spotlight.
Sylvester Stallone Heads to the Small Screen to Star in Antoine Fuqua's TV adaption of Mario Puzo's Omerta
