Donald Glover Inks Overall Deal With Amazon Studios

[Big Boss]

Donald Glover is getting into business with Amazon Studios. Sources close to the situation tell Deadline Atlanta creator Glover has left his previous home at Disney-owned FX for a multi-year overall deal, believed to be in the eight figures.

Sources also say Malia Obama has joined the writers’ room of one of Glover’s initial projects at the studio, a mini-room for a Janine Nabers project about a Beyonce-like figure.

His brother, Stephen Glover, who wrote and produced on Atlanta, also has inked an overall deal at the studio, according to a person familiar with the deal.


As part of the pact, Glover’s work also would be featured on a content portal on Amazon Prime Video.

Amazon declined to comment.

The news comes just days after Glover announced he and Phoebe Waller-Bridge were working on a reboot of a feature film Mr. & Mrs. Smith as a television series for Amazon.

The show, co-created by Atlanta writer/producer Francesca Sloane, comes from New Regency and Amazon Studios.

Waller-Bridge has an overall deal with the streamer, as does Sloane.








Donald Glover Inks Overall Deal With Amazon Studios

 

[Bryan Danielson]

Donald Glover is that dude

 

[Wargames]

This basically ensure Atlanta is only going to be for 2 more seasons unless it’s a short deal

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Great pickup for Amazon . All these big talents switching companies is like free agents in sports.

 

[FlyRy]

8 figures

Power move my Amazon

 

[Cave Savage]

This basically ensure Atlanta is only going to be for 2 more seasons unless it’s a short deal

Considering the show has been on for 5 years and only has 2 season, that's probably what's going to happen

 

[Ziggiy]

This basically ensure Atlanta is only going to be for 2 more seasons unless it’s a short deal

I been told ya’ll this.


Seasons 3 & 4 will be the last. The entire cast blew up damn near right after season 1, so did most of the writers, plus Donald already said the show wasn’t meant to go on forever.


I’m also not surprised at all he left FX after they canned his Deadpool series for bullshyt reasons. The streaming companies are giving MUCH more creative freedom and Donald and his team chose Amazon of all entities to release his Guava Island film.

 

[Goat poster]

I been told ya’ll this.


Seasons 3 & 4 will be the last. The entire cast blew up damn near right after season 1, so did most of the writers, plus Donald already said the show wasn’t meant to go on forever.


I’m also not surprised at all he left FX after they canned his Deadpool series for bullshyt reasons. The streaming companies are giving MUCH more creative freedom and Donald and his team chose Amazon of all entities to release his Guava Island film.

Was Donald Glover gonna play Deadpool?

 

[Ziggiy]

Was Donald Glover gonna play Deadpool?

Yes

 

[Wargames]

8 figures

Power move my Amazon

which makes sense.... they got money to burn. They just need content which slowly but surely they are building up.

They are becoming the Showtime of streamers

 

[BXKingPin82]

Making moves
Making moves!

 

[Goat poster]

Yes

nice

I hope he can get that going at some other point

 

[jwinfield]

I’m also not surprised at all he left FX after they canned his Deadpool series for bullshyt reasons.

Nah. FX wasn’t the reason that fell through, it was Marvel/Disney.

Donald took shots at them in the fake script he released a week after the news.

Even in the official statement, it was that FX and the Glover brothers were leaving the series.

 

[Lootpack]

Excellent move. I fukked with Guava Island when it came out.

Would’ve loved to see him venture on to other projects under FX but eight figures is hard to pass up.

 

[JerseyBoy23]

So since the Disney/Fox merger Shonda's left, Ryan Murphy;s left, now Donald Glover is leaving.