Deadwood is, alongside The Sopranos and The Wire, held in the highest regard amongst TV fans. Those three shows ushered in what many agree is HBO’s golden age but Deadwood had yet to receive the closure the other two series got. Originally, after the 2006 finale, there were plans for two feature-length movies to wrap up the story but those plans fell through and fans have been begging for some kind of closure since. Finally, after over ten years waiting, Deadwood fans finally got the news that a film was on the way to provide them with much-needed closure.
Well, according to series star Ian McShane, that closure is finally mere months away. While speaking to Den Of Geek, McShane spoke about how filming was bittersweet and offered fans a hint to the film’s release date. “They’re editing it now, it’ll be out in May,” McShane confirmed.
“It was great to see everybody,” McShane continued. “Everybody was exactly the same, which means come in, do the job, respect, fabulous. The sad thing was that this time, you knew it was going to be the end, so you’d finish a scene and say ‘that’s it, we’ve finished together’, so that was a little blubby.”
He also tried to give fans a little taste of what to expect from his Al Swearengen and Timothy Olyphant’s Bullock. “Ten years later, ten years older, ten years more scotch down him!” laughs McShane. “So not quite the man he was, but neither is Bullock. They’re all ten years later.” This isn’t much to go off of but there was also a quick teaser included in HBO’s mega-trailer for everything they’re releasing this year.
As McShane states, the film will take us back to Deadwood ten years after the events of the finale. It will offer fans closure but McShane also won’t rule out the possibility of a sequel. Though, after nearly 15 years of waiting, most fans are happy enough with one film to start.
McShane will appear next in John Wick Chapter 3: Parabellum, check him out in the film’s trailer here.
