Full SPOILERS ahead for Deadwood: The Movie!
Fans of Deadwood were no doubt pleased that the acclaimed series, which was canceled back in 2006, finally received a proper inclusion in the form of a two-hour feature film that debuted on HBO this weekend. While the show took plenty of creative license with the facts of the Wild West town’s history, it never deviated too far from established events, such as a character based on an actual person dying before they did in real life. That is until Deadwood: The Movie.
In the film, both Charlie Utter and, apparently, Al Swearengen die decades before the real men did. While Utter’s historical counterpart is believed to have moved to Panama and died there sometime in the early 1900s, the Deadwood character is killed in 1889 by agents of George Hearst, a murder that triggers the main plot of the flm.
Source: IGN.com Deadwood: The Movie Ending Explained (Spoilers!)