Quentin Tarantino in talks to direct episodes of FX’s ‘Justified: City Primeval’

By PTI

LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Quentin Tarantino is in early negotiations to direct one or two episodes of community FX’s restricted sequence “Justified: City Primeval”, starring Timothy Olyphant.

The sequence would reunite Tarantino and Olyphant after 2019’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.

According to Deadline, Olyphant can be government producing alongside showrunners and writers Dave Andron and Michael Dinner.

“City Primeval” is a brand new model of FX’s “Justified” that went off air seven years in the past.

Olyphant additionally starred as Givens within the authentic model of the Western crime drama tv sequence.

Developed by Graham Yost, the present was primarily based on Elmore Leonard’s tales in regards to the character Raylan Givens.

The new sequence shall be adapting one other Leonard title, the 1980 novel “City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit”, changing the unique character with Givens.

The present returns to Givens’ story eight years after he left Kentucky and now could be primarily based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of a 14-year-old woman.

“A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit, where he crosses paths with Clement Mansell, 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,” the plotline reads.

Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly are additionally government producers on “Justified: City Primeval”, alongside Peter Leonard, Taylor Elmore and Chris Provenzano.