EXCLUSIVE: Deadline hears that Quentin Tarantino is in early talks to direct one or two episodes of Justified: Metropolis Primeval, the FX restricted collection that reunites Timothy Olyphant together with his six-gun as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. Nobody was commenting.
Whereas most felt like Tarantino’s subsequent flip behind the digicam can be his remaining function movie, there’s a variety of symmetry right here. Tarantino and Olyphant labored collectively on the director’s most up-to-date movie, As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. There is also the filmmaker’s devotion to Elmore Leonard, who created the Givens character. Tarantino tailored the Leonard novel Rum Punch into Jackie Brown. He optioned a number of Leonard titles throughout his profession and has talked about probably directing considered one of his Westerns, Forty Lashes Much less One. The restricted collection is utilizing as supply materials one other Leonard title, the 1980 novel Metropolis Primeval: Excessive Midday in Detroit, subbing the Givens character in for the unique protagonist.
FX’s Justified went off air seven years in the past, and FX, Sony Footage Tv and FX Productions teased the new one early final yr, at which level Deadline revealed Fargo Season 4 star Olyphant was in talks to return. Olyphant is also exec producing alongside showrunners and writers Dave Andron and Michael Dinner and unique collection creator Graham Yost, with Dinner the lead director on the present. Throughout a six-year run that led to 2015, the high-rated Justified received two Emmys and was nominated for eight, together with one for lead Olyphant, together with successful a Peabody.
The present returns to Givens’ story eight years after he left Kentucky and now’s primarily based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 14-year-old lady. An opportunity encounter on a Florida freeway sends him to Detroit, the place he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, aka The Oklahoma Wildman, a violent sociopath who’s already slipped by means of the fingers of Detroit’s most interesting as soon as and desires to take action once more.
Olyphant’s Givens lives in a recent setting, however the character is true out of the ’60s Westerns that Tarantino celebrated in As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood. This could possibly be very fascinating. Tarantino has selectively directed episodes of reveals he’s favored, together with “Motherhood” throughout the first season of ER, and CSI‘s “Grave Hazard.”
Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly are additionally govt producers on Justified: Metropolis Primeval, alongside Peter Leonard, Taylor Elmore and Chris Provenzano. Walter Mosley is consulting producer and V.J. Boyd, Eisa Davis and Ingrid Escajeda are writers.
Tarantino is repped by WME.
