Justified adds Sam Elliott and another Deadwood reunion (but not that one)
Realizing he has only one final season to give fans the Deadwood reunion they want most, then learning that Ian McShane is too busy making movies, Justified creator Graham Yost has announced that Garrett Dillahunt will join the cast. The man who played two different roles on that beloved HBO series will presumably just be playing the one this time—that of “a spec ops veteran who’s spent much of the last decade deployed in combat zones, first as a soldier and most recently as a private contractor,” according to the FX press release. His private security work for a “quasi-legal businessman” causes him to cross paths with both Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan and Walton Goggins’ Boyd, who then provoke him into unleashing all his inner demons with all of their relentlessly snide repartee. The press release doesn’t specifically state that the “quasi-legal businessman” isn’t played by Ian McShane, so there is still technically hope.