It was a complicated shoot for the entire Justified: City Primeval team, now available in full on Disney+. Shootout, incendiary bomb… look back at an eventful production!
After six seasons and 78 episodes broadcast between 2010 and 2015 in the United States, the series Justified made its return to the screens. Its sequel, Justified: City Primeval, was released in July 2023 across the Atlantic and is now available in France on Disney+. Timothy Olyphant reprises his role as Raylan Givens. After leaving Kentucky, the latter seeks to manage his professional life and his career as a US Marshal as well as his role as a father. In Detroit, he will be confronted by a violent sociopath. In the series, not recommended for under 16s in France, the sometimes bloody action sequences follow one another. The filming wasn’t much more relaxing for the team.
Justified: City Primevala shooting took place on the set
On July 20, 2022, around 1 a.m., a serious incident took place in Chicago, United States, on Le filming of the series. As revealed by our Anglo-Saxon colleagues from Variety, a shootout broke out on site, between two vehicles which burst onto the set. They broke through the security barriers, but fortunately, no member of the team was injured. A person working on the set testified, explaining that she was returning from the bathroom when she heard a shot. “I’m from a military town, so I know what the fire“, she declared. Coincidence or not, the members of the team were supposed to film a chase scene in the street, when the drama happened in real life, making some people think at first of fireworks. However, Chicago police had secured the scene by closing both ends of the street, from midnight to 4 a.m., filming time. Nothing was enough to prevent these two cars from tumbling onto the set, exchanging gunfire… Filming had been interrupted for a few days, so that the production company could strengthen security.
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This second incident which took place on the set of the sequel to Justified
Despite these extra precautions, another incident occurred three weeks later. As filming continued in the South Loop neighborhood overnight, an unidentified person threw a “firebomb” in the direction of the set. As reported by the local press, this bomb fortunately did not explode and no one was injured.
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