Sylvester Stallone may have been saying goodbye to a number of his biggest franchise roles recently, but that doesn’t mean we have seen the last of the action hero. The Rocky star is all set to appear in the new series Kansas City on Paramount+, which comes from the creators of Boardwalk Empire and current hit Yellowstone. Having just finished up filming on The Expendables 4 and also reprised his role for filming of Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Stallone is just as popular and in demand now as he has ever been. His latest role will be the 75 year old’s first lead role in a TV series.

Since kicking off his acting career decades ago, Stallone has very rarely stopped working, whether it has been as an actor, producer, director or writer, but somehow Stallone has never played a lead character in a TV show. Thanks to the number of streaming platforms now putting out new content and most of them seeming to have a bottomless budget to work with, it looks like you are never too old to try something new, and having recently voiced King Shark in James Gunn’s The Suicide Squad, played a superhero in the soon to be released Samaritan and released his new cut of Rocky IV, why shouldn’t he take a shot at practically the only thing he hadn’t done so far?

Reported in Variety, Stallone will play Sal in Kansas City, a New York mob boss with legendary mafia connections who looks to bring his family back to power in Kansas City, Missouri. According to the report, Sal’s task of reestablishing his Italian mob family sees him encounter “surprising and unsuspecting characters who follow him along his unconventional path to power.” While Stallone is on top of his game as a gun-totting action hero surrounded by explosions and mercenaries, as well as being a first major role in television, the role seems to be more of a test of his acting chops rather than just flexing his muscles and firepower.

The series is co-written by Taylor Sheridan and Terence Winter, with Winter acting as showrunner while both sit as executive producers. A writers room is reported to be underway, and Stallone will also executively produce the series with David C. Glasser, Ron Burkle, and Bob Yari. Sheridan has provided a huge hit for Paramount+ with Yellowstone, which is currently showing its fourth season and is Paramount’s highest rated show, and is also behind prequel series 1883, which arrives on the platform on December 19th. Sheridan was also behind Mayor of Kingstown, which starred Jeremy Renner and launched on the platform in November.

Winter on the other hand is well known for his work on mob based drama The Sopranos, as well as Boardwalk Empire and Vinyl for HBO, as well as his writing work for The Wolf of Wall Street, which gained him an Oscar nomination for his adapted screenplay. With Winter and Sheridan working together along with an old hand like Stallone, you can almost guarantee another winner for Paramount+.