For years now Hollywood has been trying to get an adaption of Brian K. Vaughan’s graphic novel, Y: The Last Man, onto the big screen, but it’s never come together. However they’re not about to give up, as THR reports New Line is starting over and has signed deals with writers Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia to come up with a completely new script based on Y.
The comics follow Yorick, an escape artist who is the last survivor of a mysterious plague that has killed every male mammal in the world. With his pet monkey, he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world’s male chromosomes (making him the last person with a Y chromosome, hence the title). He spends most of the story on the run from a tribe of self-styled Amazons bent on eliminating the last vestige of patriarchy.
The writing duo is best known for their work on television shows Human Target and Warehouse 13, so can hopefully come up with something workable here. David S. Goyer, J.C. Spink and Chris Bender are producing.
The project has already been through many hands, with DJ Caruso set to direct and Shia Labeouf attached to star at one point, before they both left and it went into Louis Leterrier’s hands. However the project is currently both director and star-less.
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