‘Deadwood’ Movie: 2016’s First Miracle, “It’s Going To Happen”

The best television show ever created, HBO’s Deadwood, is getting a movie. Reporting from the Television Critic’s Association press tour party, TVLine caught the news of a Deadwood movie straight from HBO president of programming Michael Lombardo.

“David has our commitment that we are going to do it,” Lombardo confirmed to TVLine. “He pitched what he thought generally the storyline would be — and knowing David, that could change. But it’s going to happen.”

That David would be David Milch, whose projects since Deadwood have included two short-lived HBO series, John From Cincinnati and Luck.

According to Lombardo, Milch still has Deadwood on the mind. “I’ve known him for a while and it feels like it’s something he’s not done talking about.”

Of course, anyone who’s seen Deadwood to the end could tell you that there’s plenty more to say. The third season of Deadwood ends on a poisonously triumphant note, as the town’s most powerful residents drive out an encroaching rival at great cost. While it’s not quite the ragged end that so many disappointed fans often describe, there’s a whole lot of swearing still left unsaid in the Dakota Territory.

While Milch has a greenlight and a story for the Deadwood movie, the script is not yet written. Still, Lombardo is confident that the full cast will return.

Since Deadwood will have been off the air for over a decade, it seems likely that the Deadwood movie may pull a Star Wars: The Force Awakens and skip over a few years of time.

When Deadwood finally returns in a Deadwood movie, we may be looking at a more prosperous town, with more entrenched and bureaucratic dangers. Still, it would hardly be Deadwood without plenty of shooting, stabbing, and swearing.