Banned by Marvel: What Happened to the Deadpool Series Project?

Media on May 10, 2017 CNN announces that actor Donald Glover is developing an animated series based around Marvel’s irreverent character, the king of 4th wall blasting, Deadpool fame. At that time, the superhero had just become a worldwide hit with his first feature film, directed by Ryan Reynolds, and everyone wanted to see this “Big Mercenary”, as he was nicknamed.

What happened ?

Donald Glover, known primarily as a rapper under the pseudonym Childish Gambino, and with his little brother Stephen, is the creator of the series on FX in the US, Atlanta, a kind of chronicle of what it is to be African-American. All with a good dose of satire. Thanks to this know-how of Glover and the character of Deadpool, we can expect quite an explosive series.

during the interview variety As part of the Television Critics Association panel in 2018, it was FX president John Landgraf, where the series was supposed to go, who explained why it never saw the light of day:

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I believe Marvel will be resurrected because of who owns the rights. They have the intellectual property rights to produce adult animated series for all X-Men characters, including Deadpool. They didn’t want to do a series written by Donald and Stephen.

“We would have funded it the way it was, but it wasn’t our decision. When Marvel decided not to continue, we stopped discussions with them, as did Donald and Steven. Now the ball is in their court if they want to hire someone else and do another series.” .”

The pictures were leaked

Glover will try to confirm the project under pressure from fans by revealing pages from one of his hero’s adventures. For the same purpose, the animation studio will also publish a video. This is also the technique that allowed Ryan Reynolds to do this Prove your own Deadpool movie in real footage. Therefore, there was a “meta” side to Glover’s approach to be able to launch a new Deadpool project, as the original film did before it.

But again, Glover didn’t take the phone calls and the idea was left on the table.