Donald Glover is having an amazing last two years. His hit show, Atlanta walked away with multiple Golden Globe wins, he was tapped to star in the up-coming Star Wars film and now he gets a chance to bring one of the Marvel Universe’s most over-the-top characters to the small screen.
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FX and Donald Glover are expanding their respective relationships with Marvel.
The Atlanta star and his brother Stephen Glover (pictured above) are set to write, executive produce and serve as showrunners on an animated adult action-comedy series for FXX based on the comic book giant’s Deadpool.
The 10-episode series will launch in 2018, with Marvel’s Jeph Loeb and Jim Chory joining the Glover brothers as exec producers. Loeb and his executives are believed to be big fans of FXX’s Archer and approached FX brass with the idea, not the other way around. FX then approached Glover, a significant talent with increasing geek cred. Following a complex negotiation, the series will hail from Marvel Television, FX Productions, and ABC Studios’ cable arm, ABC Signature. A voice cast has not yet been determined.
A writers’ room for the animated series has already been set up in London, where the Atlantacreator and star is filming the Han Solo Star Wars spinoff movie where he takes on the role of a young Lando Calrissian. The latter caused the second season of the Golden Globe-winning comedy to be delayed until 2018, though insiders says Glover has already written Atlanta’s season two.
“Donald Glover is an incredibly gifted and versatile artist who’ll bring the untitled Marvel’s Deadpool series to life with the same intense, singular vision as his breakout hit Atlanta,” said FX president of original programming Nick Grad. “With the success of Legion, we’re looking forward to again partnering with Marvel Television to create a series that is bold, striking and entirely original.”
This will be another project that Glover and Marvel will connect for. Glover will be making an apperance in Spider-Man: Homecoming.