Raylan Givens is returning to TV, and this time, he’s heading for Detroit.
FX announces FridayThe Emmy-winning series’ team was named “Justified”The group is getting together again for a limited series which will be titled “Justified: City Primeval.”The network didn’t provide any timetable.
Timothy Olyphant will once again portray U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens will play the role of U.S. Leonard’s crime novel will be the inspiration for the new story. “City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit.”
After a chance encounter on an isolated Florida highway, Givens will travel to Detroit in the limited series.
Other characters will include the violent sociopath Clement Mansell, who’s known as the Oklahoma Wildman, and Mansell’s attorney, Carolyn Wilder, a Detroit native.
According to the announcement “These three characters set out on a collision course in classic Elmore Leonard fashion, to see who makes it out of the City Primeval alive.”
Original “Justified”Series, based upon Leonard’s “Fire in the Hole”novella was premiered in 2010, and it ended its run at the end of 2015. It won several awards during its run, including two Emmys, a Peabody and the American Film Institute TV program of the year prize.
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Leonard served as a consultant to the series until his death in August 2013. He was also a driving force. “Justified”Graham Yost, executive producer, is among the returning production members for the limited series.
Yost keeps a collection of WWED bracelets that were made for the original cast members and crew as a reminder to remember. “What Would Elmore Do.”
“There’s an old saw that you should never meet your heroes, and that applies, but not in Elmore’s case,”YostIn a 2014 interview with Detroit Free Press, part the USA TODAY network. “He was just fun to hang out with and had a great attitude about life and work and writing.”
Olyphant also shared memories of Leonard’s first encounter on set that year. “Justified.”Leonard enjoyed the show, even though Givens’ cowboy hat initially didn’t appeal to him.
“He was just as cool as they come,” said Olyphant at the start of the show’s fifth season. “Pretty early on, he told me not to be afraid to lose the hat. He said, ‘You know, maybe a gust of wind just comes along and you never see it again.’ I thought that was fantastic.”
“’Justified’ was one of the most critically acclaimed shows of the past decade and an adaption of Elmore Leonard’s work that was so colorfully brought to life by Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens, Graham Yost and the entire team of producers, writers, directors and cast,” said Eric Schrier, president of FX Entertainment, in a statement on the new project.
“To have this group come together again with Tim as Raylan in a new and different Elmore Leonard story is thrilling.”
Peter Leonard, Elmore Leonard’s child, will be among the executive producers.
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