After years of languishing in film development, Y: The Last Man is being developed as a TV series from FX. This news comes the very next day after it was revealed that The Boys, another, long-languishing comic-to-film adaptation was also headed to TV. Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are developing as producers. Vaughn will also be involved with the show as a producer and writer.
Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen, who are developing Preacher for AMC and shopping The Boys around to other cable networks, previously stated that if Preacher didn't work out at AMC they were going after Y: The Last Man next.
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Y: The Last Man is a comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra published by Vertigo beginning in 2002. The series is about the only man to survive the apparent simultaneous death of every male mammal (barring the same man's pet monkey) on Earth. The series was published in sixty issues by Vertigo and collected in a series of ten paperback volumes (and later a series of five hardcover "Deluxe" volumes). The series' covers were primarily by J. G. Jones and Massimo Carnevale. The series received five Eisner Awards.
D. J. Caruso, David Goyer and Louis Letterier were previously attached to the film adaptation. Alicia Keys, Zachary Levi and Shia LaBeouf were rumored but never confirmed for various roles, which Levi rumored for the lead.