Donald Glover says he ‘wasn’t too busy’ to make ‘Deadpool’ series

By Peter Sblendorio / New York Daily News

Donald Glover addressed FX’s abrupt cancellation of his animated “Deadpool” series — and made it clear he wasn’t too busy to make the show.

Glover gave people a taste of what they’re missing by sharing an apparent script for an episode, in which the anti-hero breaks the fourth wall and blatantly ponders why the series was canceled.

“Do you think they canceled the show because of racism?!” Deadpool questions on the script’s eighth page. “Yeah, all the writers were black. The references were pretty black, too. I heard they went over lunch budget ordering Jamaican food at least once a week.”

But then he reasoned that they couldn’t possibly be “alienating” their white audience since they had an episode centering on goat yoga, and another on Taylor Swift.

In addition to sharing the 15-page script, Glover — who created and stars in another FX series, “Atlanta” — wrote in a tweet, “for the record: i wasnt too busy to work on deadpool.”

FX announced its decision to axe the project on Sunday, citing “creative differences” between the network, Marvel, Glover and his younger brother, Stephen, who was serving as a co-creator and writer.

It’s unclear whether the script Glover, 34, shared Wednesday was a script they had worked on for the show, but it was filled with a slew of recent references that would suggest he tinkered with it after the cancellation was announced.

For example, Deadpool references the Beyoncé biting mystery multiple times in the script, and that story didn’t emerge until Monday, when Tiffany Haddish said in a GQ profile that an unidentified actress bit the singer at a party last December.

Much of the script also centers on the final male northern white rhino in the world, Sudan, who died last week.

The animated “Deadpool” series, which was picked up by FX last May, came on the heels of the success of the movie about the raunchy, wise-cracking character, “Deadpool,” that premiered in 2016. The sequel to that movie, which stars Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool, is due for theaters in May.