It has been one of those projects we always hoped might happen, but never quite thought would blossom into reality. Yet HBO has now announced that a TV movie to help wrap up the story of classic Western series Deadwood is now officially gearing up to shoot.
The show ended in 2006 leaving fans clamoring for more and, specifically for some closure about the slow building of a real-life frontier town (albeit with some fictionalised elements) and the colourful, often sweary, sometimes violent characters that inhabit it. The case included people such as Ian McShane, Timothy Olyphant, Garret Dillahunt, Molly Parker and John Hawkes, and juggling the availability of the sprawling cast has been one of the biggest challenges. Everyone wanted to return for creator David Milch's new script, but timing was an issue.
"All of these people worked hard to get this together,” HBO programming president Casey Bloys said at Wednesday's Television Critics Association summer press tour. “It’s been a logistics nightmare getting all the cast members’ schedules together but we are there. It is greenlit."
While there's some part of our brain that won't believe it until we're watching the thing, but the cameras are now due to kick off in October with a potential spring 2019 air date, but nothing confirmed on that front yet.
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