Justified revival halted by real-life shooting

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https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/jus...ng-1235323165/

Production on the FX revival of “Justified” was halted after two cars engaged in a rolling gun fight broke through barricades on the set.

Variety has confirmed that on Wednesday night the two cars broke through the barricades while the show, titled “Justified: City Primeval,” was filming in Chicago near Douglass Park. No one in the cast or crew was injured in the incident. Production on the series is currently scheduled to resume on Monday.

This is the second incidence of gun violence that has affected a major production this week. Early Tuesday morning, a crew member for NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was killed while reserving parking spaces for the production. Johnny Pizarro, who worked for a company contracted by the production to hold parking spaces, was shot while sitting in his car in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.

In “Justified: City Primeval,” Timothy Olyphant will once again play the role of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. The limited series is inspired by the Elmore Leonard book “City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit.” Leonard created the character of Givens, who appeared in several of the author’s novels and the novella “Fire in the Hole,” the latter of which served as the basis for “Justified.” “City Primeval” was officially ordered to series at FX back in January.

The new show picks up with Givens eight years after he left Kentucky behind. He now lives in Miami, but a chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit. There he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), 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.

The cast also includes Aunjanue Ellis, Adelaide Clemens, Vondie Curtis Hall and Marin Ireland. Much of the creative team behind the original series is also returning.

Deadline first reported news of the shooting.

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Timothy Olyphant Details Shooting on "Justified: City Primeval" Set: “It was the Scariest Goddamn Thing. It Went on Forever”
by Lynette Rice
Feb. 10, 2023


For the first time since the incident occurred, Timothy Olyphant shared in great detail what it was like to experience the shooting on the set of FX’s "Justified: City Primeval" last summer in Chicago.

While recently guesting on the Conan O’ Brien Needs A Friend podcast, Olyphant described the fateful night when three cars smashed through the show’s barricades near the city’s Douglass Park and shot off what he believed were at least 100 rounds.

“It was the scariest goddamn thing,” Olyphant recalled. “It went on forever.”




The cast and crew of the limited series were accustomed to hearing gunshots, having already filmed in “bad neighborhoods” of Chicago, Olyphant told O’Brien. But this time, the stakes were much higher because trouble was heading right for them.

“You realize they’re coming around the park,” Olyphant said of the late night incident. “If the gunshots didn’t already give you a tip about what kind of people we are dealing with, they completely ignored the road closed sign where it says filming, don’t come this way.”




While most of the crew dove for cover, Olyphant said he managed to get a peek at the shooters in the second car. One leaned out a window with a pistol that had “clearly been modified” while the other stood up in the sun roof and fired a machine gun, Olyphant recalled.

“It was so frightening,” Olyphant said. “I assumed one was going to hit me. You’re just waiting.”




The actor went on to acknowledge that “we were a little understaffed” when it came to the presence of law enforcement. A week later, he managed to exchange stories with one cop who was on the scene that night.

He called it, “a war zone. He said it was one of the closer calls he ever had,” Olyphant remembered. “He said in those situations, they’re like us, they are going to take cover since [the bad guys] are shooting at each other with machine guns. Engaging in any way just becomes a bigger mess. It was f*cked up. It was definitely crazy. People will say I seemed really chill [in the moment]. That’s funny, because that’s not the way I remembered it.”




Olyphant also said it was he who spoke up the next day about potentially shutting down production.

“We were supposed to shoot the next night in another bad part of town. I feel like I should speak up. I don’t want to shoot. I’m assuming the crew doesn’t want to shoot. That was the more emotional day.”

https://deadline.com/2023/02/timothy...go-1235256122/