'Justified: City Primeval' Showrunners on Living Up to the Original Series
Now living in Miami, 15 years after leaving Kentucky behind, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is finding that being the father of 15-year-old girl can be more challenging than dealing with bad guys, ensuring that a healthy work-life balance isn’t likely to ever happen.
You took a story that Raylan Givens is not in, and you wove him into it. Why did you make the decision to tell this story, when he wasn’t originally in it? ANDRON: We never really got to examine Raylan, as a father. We got a lot of him as a son and what that meant, and Harlan being passed down through him. But now, he’s really a father. He was a father for about 10 seconds of the original. When you have a kid, you start to see the things in yourself, where you’re like, “Oh, shit, I thought I had maybe purged that or gotten a handle on that, but there it is in my kid, and I’ve gotta face it, head on.
DINNER: We started from a place of, “We’re not bringing anybody in. We’re gonna take our guy, and we’re gonna be bold and put him in this story.” But then, as we started working, we said, “Well, we could do this.” We went down a lot of roads, trying to see what we could do, but what we didn’t wanna do was cheapen what we had done. Also, in this book that Elmore wrote, City Primeval, there were these great characters.
DINNER: It is hard [to keep surprises]. We love the eight episode and the little story we told. We’re hoping people tune in, and some characters will pop up, or not pop up. I think people will respond to the characters that are there. They’re interesting, and the dynamics are interesting, and Detroit is an interesting place. Whether it’s Sweetie and Carolyn , or whether it’s the Detroit homicide detectives, they’re really good actors and they’re really interesting characters.
The other thing you’ll see, as you go along with these episodes, there’s a really interesting dynamic and relationship between this bad guy and Sweetie, the guy who runs the bar, who’s a partner/father figure/compatriot. There’s a lot at stake in their relationship. It’s an interesting dynamic between a white guy who, on the surface, is that guy, and this guy who is Detroit and who’s this Black dude that’s the heart of Detroit. It’s pretty interesting.
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