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 theJustifiedseries finale.
“We’re glad we could do this,” Michael Dinner tells EW.
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“It’s very, very new.
Not quite the oldJustified,” Dave Andron adds.
The revival picks up 10 years after the original series ended.
Timothy Olyphant as Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder in ‘Justified’.Prashant Gupta/FX
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).
Below, the two showrunners dive deep on what fans can expect from the new revival series.
DAVE ANDRON:Well, we wanted to confirm we f—ed it up.
We ended it so well.
Why would we leave well enough alone?
MICHAEL DINNER:We thought we ended it well, and we thought we were done.
We thought we did.
We never intended to go back into the waters.
A lot of people had wanted to make this book before.
We thought it would make a great year ofJustified."
So we started kicking around the idea, and FX was into it.
And when we figured out how to do that, we decided this is an idea worth doing.
How is this new series going to compare to the original?
To me, it feels like a grown-up version of what we did.
Raylan has always had a pretty specific code.
They were pretty fleshed-out characters, even the antagonists.
It’s always about who the characters are at the core.
When our characters move an inch, that’s a lot in Elmore’s world.
So certainly, as Dave said, there’s more awareness.
It’s not so much that the world has changed, but we’re more aware of it now.
If not, who is going to take his place in this series?
ANDRON:Those are big bad guy shoes to fill.
Thankfully we had a template of a character from Elmore that we got to start with.
But it was a really daunting thing, coming up with who’s this really great bad guy?
DINNER:He’s a great foil, in some ways more dangerous.
That’s what the show was about.
I’m not sure that Clement Mansell, the bad guy in this, does at all.
And that makes him really dangerous.
It’s a pretty formidable antagonist for our protagonist.
Are we going to see any other familiar faces in this series?
It’s a new group of cops that are around him.
But then there’s a fourth character, which is the city of Detroit.
How did he end up getting his real daughter to play his onscreen daughter?
Was that always the plan?
And we were like, “This is a no-win.
If it’s not good, what are we going to do?”
And she was great.
They had a ball doing it, and it was a lot of fun.
It took about eight minutes on set for her to say, “Dad, stop.
Don’t give me notes.
Don’t tell me what to do.”
She would take little polls of who was the crew’s favorite Olyphant on the set.
DINNER:That’s classified.
Justified: City Primevalis slated to premiere summer 2023 on FX.
