You may remember how, for a while at least, a Deadpool animated TV show was in the works. Produced by absolute wonder-kid Donald Glover in conjunction with American network FX, who also produce Archer, It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia and Glover’s own Atlanta, it was set to bring the same type of meta-wit that Deadpool brings to big screen into our lounge rooms/computers/phones/wherever, really.
Then, it was suddenly cancelled. Donald, for the record, was not happy, tweeting out (and hastily deleting) a fake “script” for the pilot episode.
A small part of the now-deleted script.
Now, CEO of FX John Landgraf has told Variety that it was Marvel’s decision, not his, to can the show.
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.
By the sounds of it, it was specifically Glover’s vision, with his brother Stephen, that was cause for concern at Marvel’s end. Which, when you consider that most of Glover’s work to date has dealt heavily in ethics, politics, and loads of other stuff that might draw the ire of a Disney-owned company, is something that is unfortunately predictable, and that we totally called, by the way.
Even Troy Barnes knew.
In any case, Landgraf (aside: what a cool surname?) said that he believes that Marvel might still make a Deadpool TV show, saying, “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.”
However, it’s highly unlikely that any future Deadpool TV show would go ahead with Glover’s vision.