Back in 2010, FX premiered Justified, a taut, gritty neo-Western series that was an instant hit with viewers. With Timothy Olyphant (Santa Clarita Diet, The Book of Boba Fett) playing the hard-as-nails U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, the series got high ratings, and six seasons followed before the series came to an end in 2015.

Now the character — complete with his trademark hat — is making a comeback in Justified: City Primeval, which is due to debut on FX later this year. With Olyphant and a host of big-name stars on board, the series looks to continue the story of America’s most unconventional — or uncontrollable — law enforcement officer. Here’s what we know about the sequel series.

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Justified: City Primeval: The Plot

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Novelist Elmore Leonard was the creator of Raylan Givens, and the new series will be a loose adaptation of Leonard’s 1980 novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, with the plot retooled to include Givens. As fans will know, Justified was set in Kentucky, where Givens went up against assorted rogues, criminals, and all-round bad guys in Lexington and the Appalachian Mountains, including gangsters, D. B. Cooper types (season four revolves around the story of a mysterious parachutist found dead on the sidewalk surrounded by bags of cocaine), and local drug lords.

However, Justified: City Primeval takes place ten years after the conclusion of the first show, and switches the action to Detroit. We learn that Givens has spent the last decade raising his daughter (who will be played in the new series by Olyphant’s real-life daughter, Vivian). The antagonist is Clement Mansel, otherwise known as the Oklahoma Wildman, who Givens has to track down and bring to justice. Mansel is a serial killer whose murder of a judge brings him notoriety. Detroit is, in its way, familiar territory for a Justified sequel — the main villain for season three, Robert Quarles, hailed from the city. It’s a safe bet that viewers can also expect the odd scene or two in Miami, which is established as where Givens has spent much of the past decade.

Justified: City Primeval: The Cast

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Aside from Timothy Olyphant in the lead role, the show’s cast is a mixture of one or two stars from the original series (though Walton Goggins’s popular character Boyd Crowder is not among them), as well as a slew of new faces. In the latter category is Aunjanue Ellis, who received her first Academy Award, BAFTA, and Golden Globe nominations last year for her supporting work as Oracene “Brandy” Price, the mother of Serena and Venus Williams, opposite Will Smith in King Richard. Ellis will be all over our screens in the coming months, with appearances in the remake of The Color Purple, the movie adaptation of Edward Kelsey Moore’s novel The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, and Lee Daniels’ new horror film The Deliverance, among other projects.

Boyd Holbrook also stars as the Oklahoma Wildman, Clement Mansel. Holbrook made his name in Netflix’s crime drama Narcos and enjoyed a high profile for much of last year thanks to his appearance as the Corinthian in Neil Gaiman’s fantasy series The Sandman, but his most prominent appearance this year can only be in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny as the sidekick of Mads Mikkelsen’s villain.

Australian actor Adelaide Clemens will also appear as Sandy. Clemens received good notices for her work in Hulu’s crime drama series Under the Banner of Heaven last year, work that will doubtless hold her in good stead for Justified: City Primeval. But her other work is varied, with appearances opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Great Gatsby (2013), a starring role in Justin Lerner’s 2015 comedy-drama The Automatic Hate, and a supporting role in Martha Stephens’ ’60s drama To The Stars. An appearance in the Kristen Stewart vehicle Love Lies Bleeding is forthcoming.

Other cast members include Vondie Curtis Hall (Clear and Present Danger, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit); Marin Ireland (The Good Doctor, The Umbrella Academy), two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz (Flag Day, Madame Secretary), Victor Williams (The King of Queens, Homicide: Life on the Street), and Ravi Patel (Wonder Woman 1984, The Great Indoors).

Release Date

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Filming commenced in Chicago last year and has been eventful, to say the least, with production being disrupted by a group of cars engaged in a shootout bursting through the set on one occasion, and an incendiary device being thrown in the direction of the set on another. Though stills have emerged from the set, at the time of writing an official trailer has yet to drop. Justified: City Primeval is due to air on FX sometime this summer.