‘Justified’ Producers: ‘We Absolutely Don’t Know How This Is Going to End Yet’

Source: variety.com

The producers of “Justified” are now working on episode 10 — three episodes ahead of the series finale — and admitted they’re still figuring out their plans for that final installment.

“We absolutely don’t know how this is going to end yet,” executive producer Graham Yost told reporters at the Television Critics Assn. press tour in Pasadena on Sunday.

“We’ve all been talking about the ending,” he said, adding that it’s been an ongoing conversation since season three. “It changes every year.”

Yost said they decided to end the series now rather than “outstay their welcome.”

Series star Timothy Olyphant, who also serves as an executive producer on the FX drama, said he enjoyed going into this season with a planned finale. “It was nice to know the end is coming,” he said. “That’s been lovely, to see the finish line.”

That said, he joked frequently about looking for work after five seasons. “All I’m prepared for is I’m going to be unemployed in a few weeks, I’m going to have to say yes to some s–ty a– f–ing jobs,” he said.

The cast and creators were mum on details about the finale, which sets up a final showdown between Olyphant’s Raylan Givens and Walton Goggin’s Boyd Crowder.

All Olyphant would reveal was “It’s going to be sad.”