Fans of Donald Glover and his bravely creative writing finally got to learn that a no-go from Marvel killed the Deadpool animation series that was announced for FX.
During the recently concluded Television Critics Association's Summer Tour, FX CEO John Landgraf revealed that it was never their decision to shelf the series.
Donald and Stephen Glover's show Atlanta is already one of the prestige comedies on FX. Collaborating with them one more time for an IP like Deadpool seemed fitting for the cable channel. But the project was canned quickly after it was announced.
Glover, taking an open stab at Marvel, released a mock 15-page-long script on his Twitter handle. Since deleted tweets took a dig at racial politics in the US and other current issues like immigration, gave a taste of how different it will be from the silver screen avatar presented by Ryan Reynolds.
According to Variety report, Landgraf revealed that Marvel did not want the show written by Glover brothers.
He said, "I think that Marvel will revive it, because they have the rights. They own the IP and they have the rights to do an animated adult series based on any of the X-Men characters, and based on Deadpool specifically. They didn’t want to do the show that Donald and Stephen (Glover) wrote. We would have done show that Donald and Stephen wrote, but it wasn’t our decision. When Marvel decided not to do that show, we parted company with them as did Donald and Stephen. Now it’s totally up to them (Marvel) whether they hire someone else to do a different show."
The channel has another Marvel property in the form of Dan Stevens Legion. But will it have the company of Deadpool any time soon? Only Marvel knows the answer.
