If you've been suffering withdrawal symptoms in the seven years since Timothy Olyphant's Raylan Givens was on our screens in Elmore Leonard series adaptation Justified, prepare to be happy. He's back in the hat for more trigger-happy behaviour via follow-up series Justified: City Primeval.
The original series brought gun-slinging lawman Givens to our screens, adapting the character from several of Leonard's books, including novella Fire In The Hole. It found him reassigned from Miami back to his childhood home in the poor, rural mining towns of eastern Kentucky, where he interacted with (and often arrested) the likes of Walton Goggins' criminal Boyd Crowder.
This new series draws from Leonard's tome City Primeval: High Noon In Detroit, which picks up with Givens eight years after he left Kentucky behind. He now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a US Marshal and part-time father of a 14-year-old girl. His hair is grayer, his hat is dirtier, and the road in front of him is suddenly a lot shorter than the road behind.
A chance encounter on a desolate Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again. Mansell’s lawyer, formidable Motor City native Carolyn Wilder, has every intention of representing her client, even as she finds herself caught in between cop and criminal, with her own game afoot as well.
Dave Andron and Michael Dinner, who both worked on the original show, will run this one, with creator Graham Yost on as an executive producer. There's no word yet on when the show will premiere, but we'd expect it to arrive in 2023.