Justified quickly grew into one of my favourite series, so I was thrilled when the follow-up series was first announced with Timothy Olyphant returning as Raylan Givens. Production on Justified: City Primeval will begin this week in Chicago and the series has rounded out its cast.
It was announced today that Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman), Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Adelaide Clemens (Under the Banner of Heaven), Vondie Curtis Hall (For the People), Marin Ireland (The Umbrella Academy), Norbert Leo Butz (Fosse/Verdon), Victor Williams (The Good Lord Bird), and Vivian Olyphant have joined the cast of Justified: City Primeval. The series will follow Raylan Givens now living in Miami eight years after he left Kentucky behind as he balances life as a marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl. A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and wants to do so again.
Boyd Holbrook will play Clement Mansell, with Aunjanue Ellis playing “formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, who has every intention of representing her client, Clement Mansell, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well.” Clemens plays Sandy, Mansell’s girlfriend; Hall will play Sweety, a local bar owner and musician known to run a scam or two; Ireland will play Maureen, a Detroit cop; Butz will play Norbert, a Detroit detective; Williams will play Wendell, another Detroit detective, and Vivian Olyphant, who happens to be Timothy’s real-life daughter, will play his character’s daughter as well.
In addition to starring in Justified: City Primeval, Timothy Olyphant will also executive produce the series alongside showrunners and writers Dave Andron, Michael Dinner, and original Justified creator Graham Yost. There have also been rumours that Quentin Tarantino was in early talks to direct an episode or two of the series, but nothing has been confirmed.