Sylvester Stallone is set to direct Tenderloin, a police drama set in New York in the 1900s. Stallone will also serve as executive producer in this series. Sons of Anarchy-fame Stephen Kay is writing the pilot.

Revolving around the true story of Charles Becker, a corrupt New York City cop who leads the Strong-Arm Squad tasked with trying to keep order in a neighbourhood overrun with ethnic gangs in the Tammany Hall era of New York politics. 

Becker ends up becoming the first 'and till date the only' police officer to face the death penalty for murder.

Meanwhile, Stallone will be back as John Rambo in the fifth and final film in the franchise, Rambo: Last Blood, which will hit theatres on September 20.