"Deadwood" Movie Script is "Stunning", Actor Says
by James Hibberd
May 2, 2017


So just how is David Milch’s script for a feature-length follow-up to HBO’s "Deadwood"? In a word, “stunning,” says actor W. Earl Brown, who played enforcer Dan Dority on the HBO series during its 2004-06 run.

He tweeted on Monday, "I was sitting on an airplane, cheering and crying as I took a journey that only David Milch could create - I've read the DEADWOOD film script. It's stunning."



Milch has completed a script continuing the acclaimed Western drama, which was canceled and left without a proper ending after three seasons by the premium cable network.

Rumors of a wrap-up project have circulated for years and have gained steam recently with Milch writing a script.

http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/02/deadwood-movie-stunning/

"Deadwood" Star Talks "Gut-Wrenching" Revival Movie, Time Jump and the Handling of [Spoiler]'s Absence
by Matt Webb Mitovich
August 22, 2018


“The Maestro has topped himself,” "Deadwood" vet W. Earl Brown says of series creator David Milch’s final script for the long-awaited, recently greenlit HBO revival movie.

Over the course of the two-hour script, “my emotions ricocheted in every f–king direction,” Brown — who plays Dan Dority, Al Swearengen’s right-hand man — said across a series of tweets on Wednesday. “Exhilaration to melancholy; hoots of joy to screams of despair.”




“Milch’s words are like a scrumptious meal,” he continued, “the complexity of its flavors is something to savor.”

Brown said that Milch’s final draft is akin to a previous version he read a year-and-a-half ago, but “the complexities of the relationships, the emotional peaks and depths, are all sharpened to a razor fine edge.”

“It’s gut wrenching,” he added.




Fielding a few questions from fans who follow his Twitter feed, Brown said that the movie is set 10 years after the events of Season 3, which wrapped in 2006. Production is set to start on Oct. 5, with an eye on a spring 2019 premiere.

As for the absence of series vet Powers Boothe, who played saloon owner/Swearengen rival Cy Tolliver and passed away in May 2017, “I can’t tell you” how it is handled, Brown said. “But I will say, his absence is not ignored.”

He then noted, “There is no recasting of any roles” for the long-gestating reunion project.

https://tvline.com/2018/08/22/deadwood-movie-preview-powers-boothe-absence-cy-tolliver/