Salon.com > Kristopher Jansma http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 01:55:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Elmore Leonard rips off “Justified”! http://www.salon.com/2013/01/08/elmore_leonard_rips_off_justified/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/08/elmore_leonard_rips_off_justified/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13162405 FX’s hit series "Justified," which returns on Tuesday for its fourth season, has been hailed as groundbreaking for its complex, moral storytelling, its modern-Old West setting of Harlan, Ky., and for its lawman hero, Raylan Givens, perpetually wearing a white cowboy hat and played with no small amount of charm by Timothy Olyphant.

But the show has been quietly breaking another kind of ground these past few years. Both the character of Raylan and the world of Harlan come from the pages of master crime-writer Elmore Leonard, who created Givens as a secondary character in two novels about Miami from the mid-'90s, "Pronto" and "Riding the Rap." It wasn’t until 2001 that Leonard wrote the story “Fire in the Hole,” which made Raylan the star and sent him back home to Kentucky. This story became the basis for the pilot episode of "Justified" in 2010.

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