Harlan County is about to get a whole lot manlier. Sam Elliott – of Tombstone, The Big Lebowski, and your girlfriend’s fantasies – will guest star on Justified‘s sixth and final season. How it took the show this long to cast Elliott is anyone’s guess. There’s more good news, too: Garret Dillahunt (The Last House on the Left, The Road) is joining the cast as well, which is great for us Deadwood obsessives who have been wanting another encounter between Seth Bullock and Francis Woolcott.
Here’s a quick rundown of the men’s roles, via Zap2It:
Sam Elliott will portray “Markham,” a legendary Kentucky gangster who returns from exile with a private army and bags of cash (earned growing legal weed in Colorado), hell-bent on winning back his empire and the lost love of his life, Katherine Hale (Mary Steenburgen). He’ll find himself butting heads with Raylan and Boyd and even with Katherine herself, who secretly believes that Markham is the rat who brought down her husband.
Garret Dillahunt will play “Walker”, 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. He now handles security for a quasi-legal businessman, a job to which he brings all of the skills (as well as the demons) he acquired during his military career. Walker hides his simmering rage behind an exterior of cold professionalism — until the combined irritants of Raylan and Boyd wear away his veneer and bring the monster to the surface.
Thanks to Uproxx for the heads up.
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