Jeff Vintar, a writer on 20th Century Fox's upcoming "I, Robot," has been hired to write the adaptation of DC Comics' Y: The Last Man for New Line Cinema, with David Goyer producing.
Published by DC Comics' Vertigo and created by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, Y: The Last Man revolves around Yorick Brown, a twenty-something escape artist who appears to be the sole human male survivor of a mysterious plague that instantly killed every other male mammal with a Y chromosome on the planet. Even more enigmatic is that a male monkey named Ampersand, whom Yorick was in the process of training for disabled people, also survived the plague unscathed. As earth struggles to bury the billions left dead and rebuild society, powerful and dangerous groups learn of Yorick and Ampersand's existence and seek to capture the last two males on the planet -- or finish the job that the plague started