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  • Justified: City Primeval,  News

    ‘Justified: City Primeval’ World Premiere

    Via Deadline: The world premiere of FX’s Justified: City Primeval is among the events scheduled for Opening Night of Season 12 of the ATX TV Festival, which runs June 1-4 in Austin.

    From showrunners/executive producers Dave Andron and Michael Dinner based on the novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, the eight-part limited series picks up 15 years after U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) left the hollers of Kentucky in FX’s Justified. A conversation with creatives and cast will follow the screening.

    Read more at Deadline.

  • Daisy Jones & The Six,  Interview,  News,  Uncategorized

    Collider: Timothy Olyphant Talks ‘Daisy Jones & The Six,’ And His Love of Music

    Via Collider: [Editor’s note: The following contains some spoilers for Daisy Jones & The Six.]

    Collider: In doing a project like this, when you’re dealing with a book that people love and has this built-in fan base, does that become something of a bible for you, outside the script, or does it work better for you to look at things like bands and musicians, locations, and just this whole era?

    TIMOTHY OLYPHANT: The book, for me, was just a great read. Even before getting all the scripts, it was just a cool book. It’s always nice when you read some material that’s really great, and then you think, “Oh, I might be able to be fit into this somehow.” After that, you let go of it, other than what you’ve sourced already, and it becomes a bit of a jumping off point. The nature of an adaptation means that you’re taking it in its own direction. I did read about a lot of tour managers. There have been some great ones, and there were some classic interviews. Both of my brothers have been in the business, and my older brother is still in the business. I’ve been around it a lot. Even though it’s a different decade, it’s more or less the same gig and the same struggles and the same heartaches. I was around it a lot.

    I’ve loved music my whole life, I’ve been a concert photographer since I was 15, and I’ve worked directly with a lot of bands, and I’ve run into a lot of guys like your character. He just seemed so real and authentic, in a way that you could find him with any number of bands. even today.

    OLYPHANT: It’s no different from being in show business. If you’re around enough First ADs, they start to narrow down to a type, to some degree. But that book was well-researched. (Author) Taylor [Jenkins Reid] knew what she was writing about, and (producer) Scott [Neustadter] is no dummy either. I was in really good hands. And then, you put on those outfits, and it’s easy after that.

    Are you, personally, a music guy? Are you someone who has a connection to music, yourself? Are there bands that you’re a fan of, that you’ve been curious about the personal story of?

    OLYPHANT: I love music. I haven’t thrown out my CD collection. It was a big deal, growing up with my brothers. It’s been a big deal, my whole life, seeing music, listening to music, and talking about music. I wish it was something that came easy to me. It’s not. I’ve learned things for work, but it’s just not my language. But I love being around music, of all kinds.

    What do you think this guy saw in this band? This type of job is a bit like herding cats. It’s hard to keep track of rock stars. So, what do you think made this band worth it to him?

    OLYPHANT: Well, it’s a good job. If that’s what you do for a living and if you can hook a big fish that’s gonna carry you for a while, that’s pretty huge. You’re so dependent on the band’s success to maintain your job, to be part of that family, and to not have to keep looking for other bands. Even in the show, it’s such a sought after gig. This band is blowing up, and he’s pretty sure that there’s not gonna be any band that’s that successful, that’s gonna be easy. You know what you’re getting into.

    Because of the structure of the storytelling of this, we’re experiencing this story in its wildest moments, but also through reflection with each of these characters. What was it like to build your character in that way?

    OLYPHANT: We talked about where we wanted to see him go, and gave some hint of that. A lot of it was in the book already. A lot of it was just about how you wanna look. I don’t know what those other actors are telling you, but the fact is that most of us spend our time thinking about how we’re gonna look.

    Read more at Collider.

  • Justified: City Primeval,  News

    Timothy Olyphant on more ‘Justified’ beyond ‘City Primeval’: “I Would Show Up”

    Via Deadline:

    Based on the Elmore Leonard novel, the new limited series sees Timothy Olyphant’s U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens back — not in Kentucky but rather Detroit. The show takes place eight years after the ending of the original (which wrapped on April 14, 2015). Raylan is balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of 14-year-old Willa (played by Olyphant’s real-life daughter, Vivian). However a chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit, where he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), 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.

    Justified: City Primeval — Pictured: Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens. CR: Chuch Hodes/FX

    (You’ll remember that the series finale of Justified jumps forward four years and we see Raylan working in a U.S. Marshal Miami outpost. His nemesis Boyd (Walter Goggins) is behind bars.)

    What was the worst-case scenario that would possibly scare Olyphant off in returning?

    “My biggest concern was that I’d only make a pile of money,” joked the actor to great laughs at Pasadena’s Langham Hotel ballroom.

    Getting serious the actor said, “I didn’t have any concerns. I love these guys,” referring to his EPs Graham Yost, Michael Dinner, Dave Andron, Peter Leonard and Sarah Timberman, who were all onstage.

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

    Can we expect a further extension of the universe?

    “I would show up,” exclaimed Olyphant.

    Yost beamed, “Michael (Dinner) has been pitching since year one that it would take place in Italy or Hawaii!”

    “He was in a position to make this one in Italy!” responded Olyphant enthusiastically.

    “It’s an extension of the show in a storytelling mode, even if it’s Detroit. I feel like a hallmark of the original show is that you’d spin out into Margot Martindale and Kaitlyn Dever’s world and live there and leave our regulars,” said Timberman about City Primeval.

    “I think this show repeats what Justified did so well, which is create these really detailed universes, people who aren’t good guys or bad guys, but grey guys,” she added.

    One journalist in the room wondered if in its new setting, City Primeval would deal with the issue of race.

    “It’s certainly front and center,” Dinner answered. “The world has changed, Raylan’s world has changed. It’s an issue, but we’re not putting it so front and center that it becomes a diatribe. But it was important for us to get it right.”

    Deadline asked Olyphant about the July shooting which went down on the set, where two cars whose occupants were engaged in a gunfight smashed through the production’s barricades. City Primeval was forced to close down the set for a few days. Word was that Olyphant shielded a production assistant.

    Said Olyphant about whether that occurred, he answered, “Not true — I shielded numerous people,” to great laughs in the room.

    “In terms of shooting in Chicago – I love that town. Apparently a hundred rounds or so is not enough to fall out of love with Chicago,” said the actor when asked about whether he’d do another project again in the Windy City.

    Added Dinner about Chicago, “I joke if it weren’t for the weather, I’d be living there. It’s such a great place, great people to work with.”

    He continued, “We live in dangerous times. Any urban environment – we just live in a different world than it was 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 aberration.”

  • Justified: City Primeval,  News,  Photo Gallery

    First Look: “Justified: City Primeval”

    Via EW:

    A lot has changed in the seven years since Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) had his final showdown and left Harlan behind in the Justified series finale. And when the fan-favorite lawman returns in FX’s highly anticipated new revival series, Justified: City Primeval, not only is he a new man, he’s also brought to a new city and faces a new formidable opponent, one more challenging than his former foe Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins).

    All that “new” may be jarring for fans of the original run, but it’s what excited the showrunners about returning to the world of Justified. “We’re glad we could do this,” Michael Dinner tells EW.

    Justified: City Primeval — Pictured: Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens. CR: Chuch Hodes/FX

    “It’s very, very new. Not quite the old Justified,” Dave Andron adds. “Only people who read the book might have an idea, but I think people who haven’t, who just expect the old thing, are going to be very surprised.”

    The revival picks up 10 years after the original series ended. Givens has left his hometown behind and now resides in Miami, balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-year-old girl (played by Olyphant’s real-life daughter, Vivian). But a chance encounter will send Givens to Detroit, where he crosses paths with a violent, sociopathic desperado who’s already slipped through the fingers of Detroit’s finest once and aims to do so again, and his powerful lawyer. 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.

    Read more at EW.com