FX Series Set Disrupted by Violence in Chicago Again
by EG
The crew of the FX series Justified: City Primeval is having trouble getting their job done because of violence on the streets of Chicago. This week a violent incident caused production to pause, and that incident follows another one that shut down production for several days three weeks ago. The incidents don't seem to be specifically targeting the production, and no one has been hurt so far. Read on for details.
Production of FX’s Justified: City Primeval was interrupted again Monday by a violent incident from outside the show’s set.
The series was filming in Chicago’s South Loop area Monday night when someone threw what police described as an “incendiary device” toward the set. The device didn’t explode, according to a report from WLS-TV, and no one was hurt. Police are investigating the incident, but no arrests have been made as of publication time.
The Monday incident happened three weeks after two vehicles carrying people shooting at one another crashed through barricades on the Justified set as it filmed on the city’s West Side. No cast or crew members were hurt in that incident either, but filming paused for several days.
“We took a break and made sure everyone was ok,” FX chairman John Landgraf told reporters last week. “It was a pretty traumatic experience for the cast and crew to be anywhere near that kind of gunfire.”
Following the first incident, producer Sony Pictures TV added extra layers of security to the Justified: Primeval production, which has been filming in a number of locations in Chicago.
The eight-episode Justified: City Primeval is a sequel to FX’s 2010-15 series starring Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. It’s inspired by Elmore Leonard’s novel City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit and features Olyphant reprising his role (though the character isn’t part of Leonard’s book).
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