Even some of Deadwood's deadest cast members are back for the movie

This Friday, HBO’s Deadwood will return after 13 years away to properly end its story with a full-length movie set a decade after the third season’s conclusion. You might think, given how much time has passed, that many of the series’ actors would have retired their roles, but, because even famous people can’t deny a chance to celebrate how much Deadwood rules, it seems even the deadest among the cast are back for the film.
In an interview with Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture, Timothy Olyphant, who plays Seth “Highest Blood Pressure In The West” Bullock, talks about what it was like to return to the show after so many years away. Seitz mentions that one character, killed in the third season of the show, could have returned “as a ghost” in order to have his actor back on set. While replying that it’s “too bad it’s not that kind of show!” Olyphant mentions that having previously played a character killed during prior seasons isn’t necessarily a barrier for getting some of the same actors back on set.