Timothy Olyphant to be more ‘justified’ than City Primeval: I would Show Up – TCA

By right: City Primeval is not so much a spin-off. But if the series needs a label, “it’s an extension of the universe,” co-star Adelaide Clemens said Thursday during the show’s TCA session.

Based on the novel by Elmore Leonard, the new limited series sees Timothy Olyphant’s US Marshal Raylan Givens return – not to Kentucky, but to Detroit. The show takes place eight years after the end of the original (which ended on April 14, 2015). Raylan balances his life as an officer and part-time father to 14-year-old Willa (played by Olyphant’s real-life daughter, Vivian). However, a chance meeting on a Florida highway leads him to Detroit, where he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who has already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest.

(You will remember that the last episode of Justified flash forward four years and we see Raylan working at a US Marshal outpost in Miami. His nemesis Boyd (Walter Goggins) is behind bars.)

What was the worst case scenario that could prevent Olyphant from returning?

“My biggest concern was that I was just going to make a lot of money,” the actor joked with a laugh in the ballroom at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena.

The actor turned serious and said, “I wasn’t worried. I love these guys,” referring to his EPs Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, Dave Andron, Peter Leonard and Sarah Timberman, who were all on stage.

“I thought as long as we’re still in the world of Elmore Leonard and the world of Graham Yost that they created together, I thought I’d be just for it,” Olyphant said.

Can we expect further expansion of the universe?

“I wanted to show up,” Olyphant exclaimed.

Yost beamed, “Michael (dinner) has been playing since the first year it was supposed to be held in Italy or Hawaii!”

“He could make it in Italy!” Olympian responded enthusiastically.

“It’s an extension of the show in a narrative mode, even though it’s Detroit. I feel like a hallmark of the original show is that you dive into and live in the world of Margot Martindale and Kaitlyn Dever, and us regular people leave behind,” Timberman said. ancient city.

“I think this show repeats a lot Justified did it so well, it creates these very detailed universes, people who are not good boys or bad boys, just gray boys,” she added.

A journalist in the room wondered if in his new surroundings ancient city would address the issue of race.

“It’s definitely central,” Dinner replied. “The world has changed, Raylan’s world has changed. It’s a problem, but we don’t focus on it to the point of diatribe. But it was important for us to do it right.”

Deadline asked Olyphant about filming on set in July, when two cars whose occupants were involved in a shootout crashed through the production’s barriers. ancient city had to close the set for a few days. Olyphant is said to have protected a production assistant.

Olyphant said if that happened, he would reply, “Don’t you – I’ve protected a lot of people”, to much laughter in the room.

“As for shooting in Chicago, I love that city. Apparently, a hundred laps is not enough to make you fall in love with Chicago,” the actor said when asked about doing another project in the Windy City.

Diner About Chicago added, “I’m kidding if it wasn’t for the weather I’d be living there. It’s such a great place, with great people to work with.”

He continued: “We live in dangerous times. Any urban environment – we just live in a different world than we did 20 or 30 years ago. Chicago is a great place to live, it’s a great place to work. What happened that night was terrible. It was also an anomaly.”