‘Justified: City Primeval’ Trailer – Raylan Givens Can’t Say No to a Special Assignment

The Justified sequel Justified: City Primeval‘s new trailer finds Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) reluctantly working on a case in Detroit. Raylan would rather be on the road with his daughter and heading back home, but instead, he’s pulled into the hunt for a psycho killer.

Joining three-time Emmy nominee Timothy Olyphant for the limited series are Aunjanue Ellis as Carolyn Wilder, Boyd Holbrook as Clement Mansell, Adelaide Clemens as Sandy Stanton, Vondie Curtis Hall as Marcus “Sweety” Sweeton, and Marin Ireland as Maureen Downey. Norbert Leo Butz is Norbert Beryl and Victor Williams plays Wendell Robinson.

Timothy Olyphant’s daughter Vivian makes her onscreen debut as Raylan’s daughter, Willa.

The sequel reunites the Justified team, with Dave Andron and Michael Dinner serving as showrunners. Andron, Dinner, Olyphant, Graham Yost, Sarah Timberman, Carl Beverly, Taylor Elmore, Chris Provenzano, V.J. Boyd, and Elmore Leonard Estate’s Peter Leonard executive produce.

Justified premiered in March 2010 and wrapped up its six-season run in April 2015. During its run, Justified won two Emmy Awards, two Critics Choice Awards, a Peabody, and was named TV program of the year by the AFI Awards in 2012.

Justified: City Primeval premieres on FX on July 18, 2023.

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Timothy Olyphant, Norbert Leo Butz, Victor Williams, and Marin Ireland in ‘Justified: City Primeval’ (Photo CR: Chuck Hodes/FX)

The Plot, Courtesy of FX:

Having left the hollers of Kentucky 15 years ago, Raylan Givens now lives in Miami, a walking anachronism balancing his life as a U.S. Marshal and part-time father of a 15-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.

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.