Deadline reports that Ravi Patel (The Valet) will be joining Timothy Olyphant in the Justified sequel limited series, Justified: City Primeval.
Justified: City Primeval will be based on Elmore Leonard’s book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and follow “U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens’ (played by original series star Olyphant) story eight years after he’s left Kentucky and now is based in Miami, balancing life as a marshal and part-time father of 14-year-old Willa (Vivian Olyphant). A chance encounter on a Florida highway sends him to Detroit and he crosses paths with Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), 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.”
Patel will play Rick Newley, but no additional details have been provided on the character.
Justified: City Primeval will be written and showrun by Dave Andron and Michael Dinner and original Justified creator Graham Yost. Dinner will direct the limited series while Olyphant will executive produce alongside Andron, Dinner and Yost.
Justified: City Primeval will star Timothy Olyphant, Aunjanue Ellis (King Richard), Boyd Holbrook (Logan), Adelaide Clemens (Under The Banner of Heaven), Vondie Curtis-Hall (Daredevil), Marin Ireland (The Umbrella Academy), Norbert Leo Butz (Better Nate Than Never), Victor Williams (The Affair), Ravi Patel (The Valet) and Olyphant’s daughter Vivian Olyphant.
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