Donald Glover Uses A Brutal, Hilarious "Script" To Address Deadpool Show Cancellation

Just recently, it was reported that the animated Deadpool TV show had stalled, with showrunner and writer Donald Glover walking away from the project. Glover had been working on the series with his brother Stephen since May last year, but "creative differences" had forced the pair, plus producers FX, to walk away from the partnership with Marvel TV. Now Glover himself has made reference to his exit from the Deadpool show.

Glover's only direct comment on the matter was a tweet saying that he wasn't "too busy to work on Deadpool." This is in response to some reports that his departure from the show was due to his busy schedule--Glover is also the star and producer of the hit comedy Atlanta, as well as an actor in movies such as Solo: A Star Wars Story and an acclaimed musician. However, Glover's tweet suggests that the reasons for leaving the Deadpool show were nothing to do with his schedule, and the script pages that he shared might provide a clue as to why the actor left.

The pages that Glover posted are clearly not from the show itself, but they are packed with allusions to the show's cancellation as well as a host of other highly topical references. In the script, Deadpool talks about how Marvel already has plenty of "feel good minority shows that everyone supports but no one watches," and that his show "would have been funny." In addition, Deadpool speculates whether now is really the right time to have a "violent gun-toting white man ranting on TV" and comes to the conclusion that "maybe they just wanna sell toys." Check it out in the series of tweets below:

The canceled Deadpool show was to run for set to 10 episodes in its first season and would have premiered this year on FX sister channel FXX. In May last year, FX programming co-president Nick Grad explained that the show would be "bold, striking, and entirely original." It seems that it might have been just a bit too bold and original.

In related news, a new trailer for the movie Deadpool 2 arrived this week, which follows last week's first full trailer. The film hits theaters on May 18, and stars Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, and Zazie Beetz.