‘Justified’ Revival Production Shut Down After Gun Battle Crashes Through Set Barricades
variety.comJoe Otterson TV ReporterProduction on the FX revival of “Justified” was halted after two cars engaged in a rolling gun fight broke through barricades on the set.Variety has confirmed that on Wednesday night the two cars broke through the barricades while the show, titled “Justified: City Primeval,” was filming in Chicago near Douglass Park.
No one in the cast or crew was injured in the incident. Production on the series is currently scheduled to resume on Monday.This is the second incidence of gun violence that has affected a major production this week.
Early Tuesday morning, a crew member for NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” was killed while reserving parking spaces for the production.
Johnny Pizarro, who worked for a company contracted by the production to hold parking spaces, was shot while sitting in his car in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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